Egervári Castle (Egervár) (Egervár)

 castle, mansion / manor house / villa

Medieval castle, which was a border fortress for a long time the western part of Hungary defender line.
Its layout regular quadrilateral, the corners of the Italian bastion-shaped towers. The inner courtyard was originally closed, later rebuilt in U shape.
The first wooden castle was built after the Mongol invasion of the then very swampy area of ​​the town is the alders castle's name might have received. 1288 is already mentioned in a document known as the strength castrum Egerwar that the XIV. It could die a century.
After Kanizsa fell in 1600, it became a border fortress Egervár and thus increased the strategic importance. In 1664 successfully resisted the Turkish siege, but still in the same year, the Turks burned.
More restoration, fire, reconstruction in 1787, the castle was once again a bad state after a change of ownership, and some parts were used as a granary. After the further deterioration in 1945 only brought an end to the state of recovery between 1961-65. Since the mid-1970s the castle courtyard every summer theater performances were held, which gradually improved infrastructure. Since 2000, maximum of 450, can be covered with tent auditorium was built. The castle operated as a hotel for a while now locked up, is abandoned.

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