Hospital in the Rock
The Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum invites you underground to the caverns beneath Buda Castle, where an emergency hospital and bomb shelter were begun in 1939 and completed as a surgical center in 1944. Károly Szendy, then mayor, ordered the project, built to provide general emergency care for civilians and later treated soldiers, with about 40 medical staff at the outset and a policy of care regardless of gender, race, religion, or ethnicity. The complex is connected to an existing tunnel network—part of a longer castle tunnel system explored for centuries—and the hospital sits at Lovas út 4/C, currently a museum that preserves its WWII history and the harsh conditions of siege life. During the 1944-45 Siege of Budapest, the hospital cared for the wounded and the dead; at times it faced shortages of food and medicine, with improvised sterilization and reuse of supplies, and even horses providing food. …
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