Károlyi Castle (Fehérvárcsurgó)
Károlyi Castle is a 19th-century castle located in Fehérvárcsurgó, Mór District, Fejér County, Hungary. The castle was built in Classicism, classicist and Eclecticism, eclectic style by György Károlyi, a descendant of the Károlyi family, and was designed by architects Henrich Koch and Miklós Ybl. The building currently houses a 23-room hotel, but can be visited with a guided tour. History The first owner of the Fehérvárcsurgó estate was the Hochburg family from 1691, then the Berényi (other), Berényi family inherited it through marriage with a Hochburg daughter, and later the Perényi family. According to records, the Baroque architecture, baroque castle of Baron Ignác Perényi stood on the site of the present castle before 1786. In 1834, the estate was mortgaged by Imre Perényi to Count György Károlyi, who in 1825 was one of the founding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by offering 40,000 Hungarian forint, forints at the reform parliament. ...
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