Reconstruction of the Szirmay-Waldbott Castle

“The mag­nif­cen­ce of aris­toc­ra­tic rep­re­s­en­ta­ti­on and the high level of ag­ri­cul­t­u­ral know­ledge ac­cu­mu­la­ted at the Szir­may– Wald­bott Castle ear­ned it wide-spre­ad re­nown in its time. Trying to fnd its place in the re­gi­on, now it func­tions as a vi­si­tor cent­re. The app­ro­ach taken to its re­no­va­ti­on reflected the int­ent­ion of its ori­gi­nal buil­ders: to pre­ser­ve the va­lues crea­ted by the an­ces­tors and keep the scale of the de­ve­lop­ment to a fea­sib­le level. (…) The re­con­struc­ti­on pro­ject began with the sur­veying of the fa­ca­de fol­lo­wed by a comp­re­hen­sive as­sess­ment of the mo­nu­ment fea­tu­res: the analy­sis of the wall fabric, the res­tora­ti­on po­ten­ti­al of the paint­ings and tim­ber ele­ments as well as fnd­ing ar­chi­tec­tu­ral and sci­en­tifc do­cu­men­ta­ti­on. The his­to­ri­cal analy­sis was supp­le­men­ted with a for­tu­na­te and rare op­por­tunity: the Szir­may and Wald­bott fa­mi­li­es pre­ser­ved the castle in their me­mory and stori­es and thus cont­ri­bu­ted to the succ­ess of the re­no­va­ti­on with their know­ledge and at times even with the ob­jects they had kept.” (Rita Tu­czai)