The Ten Most Beautiful Castles On Offer In Hungary

What a “castle” is is as difficult to define as what “old” is. Urbanista.blog.hu defined pre-war, individual buildings with own parks, built for only one family as castles. They excluded city palaces and villas, the kind or another buildings advertised as castles, and then they drew a line between castles and mansions in terms of their sizes. They classified castles as buildings which are at least 750 square meters in size.

Most people don’t even know exactly how many castles are located in Hungary, or how many are on offer. Probably because this property type doesn’t really have its own market. It’s not surprising that we don’t find any castles among the 10 most expensive Hungarian houses.

It’s amazing how big and how beautiful buildings are found in towns most of us never heard of, and that how bad conditions some of them are in. It’s also weird, but not surprising, that how awkward sometimes the advertisements of these more million HUF properties are, marked with completely random architectural styles from classicist to baroque.

Urbanista.blog.hu also mentions that realtors have an annoying habit that they try to dissemble the place of the property. It is justifiable in case of a panel flat, because obviously no one would knock on the door of every tenant of three blocks to find out who of them is selling the particular flat, but it’s different with a 1000 square meters, unique look castle. Even if the realtors tell the name of the neighboring town, this habit is simply annoying.

Here comes the ten most beautiful, most interesting castles in the compilation of urbanista.blog.hu, from the cheapest to the most expensive:

10. Perczel castle, Rózsafa – HUF 20 million

Photo: ger82/muemlekem.hu

The once beautiful castle have decayed during the past century (it was built in 1913) and looks heartbreaking today. It’s worth to watch the pictures attached to the advertisement, where the building is offered in a HUF 20 million (!!) target price. The former owner possibly would be very disappointed if he knew that his castle now worth only the price of a small urban apartment.

9. Dessewffy castle, Gávavencsellő – HUF 150 million

Photo: Wikipedia

Does the roof worth this much? The Dessewffy castle offered for HUF 150 million is not in much better condition than Perczel castle in Rózsafa, but has a newly-constructed roof. It means a lot, together with the facts that the castle is near Tokaj, and almost 1000 square meters big. However, it’s still not in a good status.

8. Serényi castle, Putnok – HUF 150 million

Photo: Wikipedia

The residency of Serényi family in Putnok is a classicist gem even in its current state. Although everything movable were taken from its inside a long time ago, the building still keeps the XIX. century elegance in its details. It also have a newly-built roof, which will hopefully survive until the castle get a new owner.

7. Buttler castle, Erdőtelek – HUF 165 million

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The roof is also in a good condition on the Buttler-castle constructed in the end of the 1800’s. Its vaulted ground floor, the paintings inside, and the formation of the driveway through the building make it interesting and unique.

6. Vay castle, Tiszacsege – HUF 260 million

Photo: kastely-hotel.hu

This castle is interesting for more aspects. It’s a massive cube, looks like a fortress, although it is not so old. The classicist, late baroque building was constructed sometime in the beginning of the XIX. century. It’s also strange that it was originally planned to be much bigger – the square destined to be its fund still appears. Today a castle hotel is functioning in the building.

5. Jankovich-Bésán castle, Somogygeszti – HUF 390 million

Photo: muemlekem.hu

The castle was built in 1823, but it reached its current form in the 1920’s. Now it’s functioning as a castle hotel, but is also on offer in the website of the hotel. The price of the property is not indicated on website, but in other advertisements it’s on sale for HUF 390 million. More information about the castle is on its website.

4. Zichy-Hadik castle, Seregélyes – HUF 390 million

Photo: Egressi János – Wikipedia

Probably the biggest (12 850 square meters) baronial castle on the Hungarian real estate market. The building functioned as a castle hotel for a while after its troubled fate (it also worked as a Videoton warehouse once). It has been empty since 2008, which isn’t good for its condition. The park of the castle is also protected, it’s on sale for HUF 390 million now.

3. Fábiánics castle, Misefa – HUF 420 million

Photo: misefa-kastelyszallo.hu

This castle has a lucky story since it’s being in use nowadays as a hotel. Although many things were simplified during the renovation and the castle was even more beautiful in all its glory, the main point is that the renewal saved the building from decaying. It is said that its cellar was the only part which didn’t need complete reconstruction.

2. Somssich castle, Zalakomár – HUF 420 million

Photo: Adverstiment

The romanticist, eclectic castle built on the previous turn of the century operated as a trade-union summer resort after WWII. It’s interesting to see how does it look like now in the advertisement and how it did as a summer resort
(http://egykor.hu/zalakomar/ormandpuszta/2760). Its special serpentine wooden staircase is still beautiful.

1. Petrovszky castle, Bükkösd – HUF 800 million

Photo: Adverstiment

Although HUF 800 million seems a bit too much, it’s easy to see why Petrovszky castle is on the top of the list. It’s an extraordinary property not only because it’s in perfect condition, it was never operated as a hotel, or its inside looks beautiful too, but it’s an outstanding creation originally as well. The building is the most beautiful Louis XVI style castle in the area. In the following link you can find a video about the utilization plans of its interior.

based on article of urbanista.blog.hu
translated by Zsófia Luca Szemes

Source: http://dailynewshungary.com/