Nádasdy Castle
The Nádasdy [ ˈnaːdɒʒdi ] Castle is a fortified castle in the city of Sárvár in Hungary .
The fort-like former moated castle Nádasdy was built in the Renaissance around 1560 in place of an older complex. The original structure that the conquering Magyars had built was an early medieval clay castle . But this was a few hundred meters away.
The renaissance complex was later rebuilt in baroque style and redesigned in accordance with the new taste of the time. At the beginning of the 17th century, Countess Elisabeth Báthory, who was later convicted of murder, lived here . The victorious battles of her husband Ferenc Nádasdy , the "Black Knight", against the Turks are depicted in pictures by the Viennese painter Hans Rudolf Müller from 1653 in the grand hall of the complex . In 1769 Stephan Dorfmeister designed the ballroom and the tower room with frescoes depicting scenes from the Old Testament, see above. a. Mordechai and Ester, Samson and Delilah David and Goliath, Ahasver and Ester, Josue, Judith and Holofernes, Jahel and Sisera, offering of Gedeon and the Unction of David to be king.
In 1875 the Wittelsbach family inherited the castle from Duke Franz V of Modena and remained the last owners before the castle was nationalized after the Second World War. Ludwig III died here in 1921 . , the last Bavarian king , on a journey. From 1940 to 1944 the Albrechts von Bayern family lived in exile in Nádasdy Castle until the Wehrmacht invaded and the family was deported to the concentration camp .
In 1945, Soviet troops were quartered in the castle before the now nationalized castle was handed over to the city of Sárvár in 1949, which built apartments and an agricultural school in it. In the 1960s and 1970s the apartments and the school were relocated, the castle was restored, and the city library with a cultural center and a wedding hall moved in.
Today the former moat has been drained and turned into a small park. The facility can be visited and houses the Ferenc Nádasdy Museum.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 5.8 ″ N , 16 ° 56 ′ 15.4 ″ E