Rhédey Manor, Dăbâca

Summary

A late Baroque manor in Dăbâca (Cluj County) with roots in the 18th century, held by the Rhédey family until the mid-19th century and later by the Mikó, Teleki and Gidófalvy families. Restituted to the Gidófalvy descendants, it stands in advanced decay, overgrown and with a collapsed roof reported in 2020.

Legal status

Listed historic monument; restituted to the Gidófalvy family, with succession proceedings ongoing in 2023 ↗

History

According to Transylvania Trust, a modest wooden house belonging to Ioan Boros of Magyarvéggyanta passed by marriage to Pál Rhédey; Iosif Rhédey, who inherited the estate in 1722, replaced it with a sturdier building, which the text links to his elevation to count in 1744. In the late 18th century his son Count Farkas Rhédey remodelled it in late Baroque style as a six-room house with a colonnaded porch. The Rhédey family held it until the mid-19th century; after Count Adam Rhédey (county head of Dăbâca 1806-1835, died 1849) it passed through Mária Rhédey's marriage to the Mikó family, then to the Teleki family (Count Imre Teleki owned about 1,107 ha in 1898). Early in the 20th century István Gidófalvy bought the estate for his son István (1908-1981), who owned the manor with his wife Etelka until nationalisation, after which the family moved to Târgu Mureș. The building was restituted to the family; Transylvania Trust (2023) reports that succession proceedings were still under way. A 2020 report in Monitorul de Cluj describes a single hall full of rubble and graffiti with a collapsed roof, and says the town hall could act only through a partnership with the owners.

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