Sükösd-Bethlen Castle, Racoș
Castelul Sükösd-Bethlen · Sükösd–Bethlen-kastély (Alsórákos)
sat Racoș; comuna Racoș, Brașov · Str. Principală 137
Local family manages access; call the number on the gate; entry at own risk, wooden stairs
Summary
A 17th-century Renaissance fortified manor in Racoș (Brașov County) with four corner bastions and a five-storey gate tower, built by György Sükösd and later held by the Bethlen family. Owned since 1903 by the village's communal landowners' association, it is only partly restored and its interior is unusable.
Legal status
Bought in 1903 by the communal landowners' organisation; returned to it after 1989 ↗
History
A noble manor stood here by the mid-16th century. György Sükösd transformed it in the 1620s-1630s and died in 1631 before completion; bastions and curtain walls were finished around 1637. Prince György Rákóczi I seized the estate in 1633 and Péter Budai held it from 1667 until his death in 1694, when it passed to the Bethlen family; Samuel Bethlen is linked to the southern wing and the gate tower (dated 1700). In 1863 Count Sámuel Teleki bought the estate, and the castle declined; the eastern wing was auctioned and demolished in 1918. The communal landowners' organisation of Racoș bought the castle in 1903 and still holds it. It later served as a gendarmerie post, and under communism as a stable and grain store, with the wall partly broken through for machinery. Partial restoration began in the early 1990s but was never completed.
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Listed components
- Castelul Sükösd-Bethlen — 1624 - 1700 (BV-II-m-A-11754.01)
- Incintă bastionară — sec. XVI - XVII (BV-II-m-A-11754.03)
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