Curtea boierească a familiei Franc – o fortificaţie a sfârşitului de secol XIX
Boyar Court of the Franc Family – An Fortification of the End of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: In the Moldavian Highland, one of the families that have dominated the political, economic and cultural life, was the family of the Hudici boyar, followed by the Boldur and Costach(i)e (Kostaki) families, „the high politics” being, along the centuries, the appanage of a close group of large boyar families. Starting with year 1897, the members of the Franc families, another boyar well known in the area, have built a boyar court in the current village of Hudeşti, Botoşani county. The architectural complex is located in the vicinity of historical monuments such as the manor of the Boldur-Lăţescu (1757) family and a short distance from two religious edifices, registered in the national patrimony – the orthodox churches „Sfinţii Voievozi” Hudeşti (1759) and „Sfântul Gheorghe” Mlenăuţi (1803). The historic, economic and cultural evolution of the pre and post war period has been followed by the centralization and industrialization of the communist period, the manor of the Franc family being turned into the headquarters of the rangers company in the area, or the headquarters of the forest division, and then it became a sanitary unit. Gradually, the entire fortification raised at the end of the 19th century has fallen into oblivion.

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