Béldi Pál Castle, Budila
Castelul Beldy Pál · Béldi Pál-kastély (Bodola)
sat Budila; comuna Budila, Brașov · 594
Castleintransylvania marks it visitable; private site under restoration
Summary
A mid-18th-century fortified manor in Budila (inscribed 1751) with a symmetrical plan, corner bastions and a T-shaped gatehouse. Used in communist times as a girls' reformatory and a pig farm, it is now privately owned and being restored by the Mikes family.
Legal status
Nationalised; used by ONT Carpați from 1982; now private ↗
History
The portico decoration bears the initials G.B.I. and the date 1751; the builder is not known. The symmetrical rectangular house has square corner bastions, a central portico and ten mostly vaulted rooms, plus a two-storey T-shaped gatehouse. It was nationalised from Countess Rozália Mikes, widow of Count Ferenc Béldi (1872-1942), and first used as a girls' reform institution. After 1965 its canteen served the agricultural lyceum in the neighbouring Mikes castle. In 1982 it passed to the ONT Carpați tourism enterprise, which ran a pig farm on the Béldi, Mikes and Nemes estate, and after 1989 a firm used it as a warehouse. The Mikes family is now restoring the complex for tourism.
Listed components
- Castelul Beldy Pál, azi depozit al S.C. Aro Palace — 1731 (BV-II-m-A-11616.01)
- Parc dendrologic — sec. XIX (BV-II-m-A-11616.02)
- Pavilionul Porții — sec. XVIII (BV-II-m-A-11616.03)
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