What do we save, why and for whom? Cover Image

Mit mentünk, miért és kinek?
What do we save, why and for whom?

Author(s): Csilla Hegedüs
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Civil Society
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: Transyvlania; castles; restoration; retrocession; ownership

Summary/Abstract: As the executive director of the Transylvania Trust Foundation, which also administrates the Bánffy castle in Bonchida/Bonţida, and the Sub-secretary of Culture of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), offers a survey on the situation of the historical castles of Transylvania, Romania. After the long years of communist dictatorship, it was in Romania where most castles were returned by the state administration to the descendants of their original owners. However, these buildings were now in a much worse state than in their heyday, and their restoration and future use confronts the Romanian society and the owners with problems which could have hardly been initially foreseen, also dealt with by the author.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 14-16
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian