Bethlen Castle, Mădăraș
Castelul Bethlen din Mădăraș
sat Mădăraș; comuna Mădăraș, Mureș · 42
Summary
A castle in Mădăraș (Mureș County) belonging to the Bethlen family, listed in the LMI with a date of 1517. Hungarian sources describe a Bethlen manor in the village centre, last held by the Orbán family.
Legal status
Listed historic monument, LMI code MS-II-m-A-15716; the heritage register lists it as a manor house (kúria) ↗
History
The LMI dates the monument to 1517 and names it Castelul Bethlen; the Romanian Wikipedia list of Mureș castles records the Bethlen family as owners and dates it to the medieval period (1517). Hungarian Wikipedia describes a manor (kúria) in the middle of the village that belonged to the Bethlen family of Iktár, the Orbán family being its last owner, and says an 1848 officer, Károly Orbán, was buried in its garden. The village itself is first attested in 1332.
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