Degenfeld Mansion, Téglás

The Degenfeld Mansion, Téglás is located in Téglás, in Hajdú-Bihar county, the largest mansion of the Trans-Tisza region. Its builder was Pál Bek, imperial and royal councillor of the town of Debrecen, landowner and land-surveying expert, who had an eleven-thousand-hold domain in the eastern part of the country from Tokaj to Debrecen. Through the marriage of one of the Bek daughters the estate came into the possession of the branch of the Swiss-Saxon-descended Degenfeld-Schonburg comital family that had migrated to Transylvania.

After the long period of decay following the Second World War, the mansion was bought in 2002 by a private investor with the intention of renovating the building and creating a spa hotel in it based on the local thermal water. Later, citing a lack of funds, the investor did not fulfil the promises he had undertaken. In the summer of 2010 the mansion and its park were battered by a storm of enormous force, which led to further deterioration.

Finally, after more than 200 years, the Neoclassical-style mansion, also bearing Romantic features, and its garden regained their beauty. Their renovation was begun by their new owners in 2013 using their own resources and European Union support. In the first phase the façade and the interiors of the ground floor were restored, and then a lakeside guest house and event centre were created. The botanical garden and the ten-hectare mansion garden were also renewed, where in time an educational trail was created.

Machine-translated from “Degenfeld-Schonburg-kastély (Téglás)” on the Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Degenfeld Mansion, Téglás ranks #7,267 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #74 of the 135 mapped in Hungary. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nyíregyháza, 27 km away. See how Hungary compares in the castle statistics.

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