Archduke Joseph's Palace

Archduke Joseph's Palace (Hungarian: József főhercegi palota) is a former royal residence located on Castle Hill (Várhegy) in Budapest, Hungary.

Benedict Heym's house built in 1362 stood on the southern half of the plot, which was acquired in the 1380s by Cardinal Demeter, Archbishop of Esztergom, and after 1514 by the Bánffy family.

It was auctioned off by the army in 1787, at which time József Teleki (1738–1796), archbishop and crown guard of Ugoccia, bought it at the suggestion of his secretary, Dániel Cornides, a professor at the University of Pest.

Teleki had a U-shaped, two-story, 12-apartment palace built here, based on the plans of the Bratislava architect Anton Fisches, in the so-called ‘Zopfstil’ style.

George Square’) and Dísz tér, the new Royal Hungarian Ministry of Defense was built in 1889, the offices were moved, Archduke Joseph Karl bought the Teleki Palace for himself from the Treasury.

In 1902, the archduke rebuilt and expanded the palace, in a historicizing style, based on the designs of Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl.

In the 1990s, the palace and the so-called In place of the Josephs Gardens, the state administration had a medieval ruin field built, and later a basement museum was also created below ground level.

To the north of the palace, on the edge of the western castle wall, in the area stretching to the Fehérvár rondella, many houses were built in the Middle Ages and during the Turkish subjugation, this was ‘Szent György utca’.