CASTELE DIN EPOCA ECLECTISMULUI ÎN FOSTUL COMITAT CLUJ
HISTORICIST COUNTRY HOUSES FROM THE FORMER CLUJ COUNTY

Summary/Abstract: Historicist Country Houses from the Former Cluj County. The topic of my study consists of country houses that were built or substantially transformed between 1840 and 1918 in the former Cluj county, a wealthy and important Transylvanian county of the time. In the period under research a total of eight country houses were built in this county, among which the most important ones were concentrated around the city of Cluj. These are the residences from Borşa (Kolozsborsa), Răscruci (Válaszút), Bonţida (Bonchida) şi Jucu de Sus (Felsőzsuk). The first three of them belonged to the famous Bánffy family. The country houses from the nearby localities of Gilău (Gyalu) and Vlaha (Magyarfenes) were situated south-west to Cluj, the country house from Dragu (Drág) was in the region of Sălaj (Szilágyság), and the one from Beliş (Jósikafalva) was isolated in the Gilău mountains, in the south-west corner of the county. Apart from these buildings, the noble residences from Ciucea (Csucsa) and Zimbor (Magyarzsombor) appear in the public opinion as country houses, but in my view they can be considered only manor houses or villas. In order to dissolve these contradictories, these two buildings are presented in the first subchapter of this study.

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