Nopcsa Castle, Zam
Castelul Nopcsa
sat Zam; comuna Zam, Hunedoara
Wikimapia outline “Castelul Nopcsa (azi Spitalul de psihiatrie)” (user-drawn, approximate)
Working psychiatric hospital; public access is not documented
Summary
A two-storey castle in a park at Zam, linked to the Nopcsa family and rebuilt in 1879 after destruction in 1848. It is public property and, according to Romanian Wikipedia, houses a psychiatric hospital.
Legal status
Confiscated from the last private owner over debts and passed to the Romanian state ↗
History
Ladislau (László) Nopcsa, supreme count of Hunedoara County from 1833, retired to Zam after resigning in 1848. On 3 November 1848 Hungarian insurgents devastated the castle, and they returned on 2 December to demolish it. It lay in ruins for about three decades until a Viennese lawyer named Lekisch rebuilt it in 1879. The last private owner, Count Mihály Csernovics, accumulated heavy debts; the castle was confiscated and passed to the Romanian state. It now serves as a psychiatric hospital. The building's square block with a semicircular three-sided central bay is attributed to 1879, with an elongated part added around 1900.
Listed components
- Castelul Nopcsa — sec. XVIII - XIX (HD-II-m-B-03476.01)
- Parc — sec. XIX (HD-II-m-B-03476.02)
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