Károlyi Castle is a 19th-century castle located in

Fehérvárcsurgó Fehérvárcsurgó is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. References External links * Street map
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Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

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. The castle was built in

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and

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style by Count

Gyula Károlyi Gyula Count Károlyi de Nagykároly in English: Julius Károlyi (7 May 1871 – 23 April 1947) was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1931 to 1932. He had previously been prime minister of the coun ...

, a descendant of the

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, and was designed by architect

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History

Fehérvárcsurgó was first mentioned in 1549, as the property of . The next owner was

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Castle captain Baron Christoph von Ungnad, who mortgaged the area in 1575. It was bought by Baron Sigismund Rákóczi,

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, in 1603, who owned it for nearly 100 years. In 1676, part of Parádsasvár came to

Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi (, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince () of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of ...

, Ruling Prince of Hungary, and his sister, Júlia Rákóczi. In the 1740s, Count Antal Grassalkovich acquired the property right who in 1770 installed the Parád glass huta in Parádsasvár, from which a glass factory was established.. In , former tenant, acquired ownership. His son built the Károlyi Castle in 1881 based on designs by the

architect

, as a gift for his wife, Countess Karolin Zichy. The castle was completed in 1882, however, the Countess was living in exile with

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at the time, so she was only able to move into the castle in 1893. The castle was inherited by their grandson, Count

Mihály Károlyi Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly (; ; or in short simple form: Michael Károlyi; 4 March 1875 – 19 March 1955) was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Re ...

(

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and then the 1st

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). While Count Mihály preferred the city, his wife,

Katinka Andrássy Countess Katalin Károlyi (née Countess Katalin Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály és Krasznahorkai; 21 September 1892 – 12 June 1985) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian noblewoman and the wife of Count Mihály Károlyi, who served as Prime Minis ...

, enjoyed spending time at the castle. They rented out part of the castle to tenants, who used the rooms as a hotel.

Nationalization and conversion

After the fall of the

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in 1919, the area came into state hands, and the Károlyis only got it back at the end of

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. They enjoyed the estate for two years, before it was nationalized as state property again. The government used it as a children's holiday resort. After years of neglect, the castle deteriorated so much that the holiday resort was closed, and it sat in a state of disrepair for years. In 1996, however, the dilapidated, completely gutted castle, stripped of its windows, doors and decorations, was fully renovated. Two years later, it opened its doors as a five-star hotel in December 1998, which continues to operate today Parádsasvár became an independent municipality in 1947.

Gallery

Károlyi-kastély (Kastélyhotel Sasvár) (5819. számú műemlék) 2.jpg, December 2009 Károlyi-kastély, Parádsasvár.jpg, 2000s ParadsasvarFotoThalerTamas.jpg, The hotel, November 2018

References

External links

{{Authority control Castles in Hungary Museums in Hungary

Parádsasvár Parádsasvár is a village in Heves County, Hungary, in the Mátra mountain range, the bottom of the eastern side of the Galya-tető peak, the Parádi-Tarna creek flows through the settlement. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 335 (see De ...