Haller Castle - Sânpaul
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The ruins of the baroque building, with a U-shaped plan, belong to the castle built by Count Haller Gábor in 1760, the style of the construction being similar to the Grassalkovich Castle in Gödöllő. The castle was once surrounded by a large park with arbours, stone tables and lakes, and inside the vaulted rooms were decorated with paintings and sculptures, solid wood furniture brought from Paris and chandeliers made in Vienna.
The Haller family owned the building until 1945, when the Communist regime nationalized it, using it for housing, schools, and later as a storehouse. The building was completely robbed of every valuable object (furniture, expensive carpets, pieces of art), every wooden object, including the flooring in the building was used as firewood, tiles were stolen, and stoves were destroyed. The park has deteriorated so much that it is nowhere to be seen.
The heirs of the Haller family recovered the ancestral castle and donated it to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia.
The ruins of the baroque building, with a U-shaped plan, belong to the castle built by Count Haller Gábor in 1760, the style of the construction being similar to the Grassalkovich Castle in Gödöllő. The castle was once surrounded by a large park with arbours, stone tables and lakes, and inside the vaulted rooms were decorated with paintings and sculptures, solid wood furniture brought from Paris and chandeliers made in Vienna.
The Haller family owned the building until 1945, when the Communist regime nationalized it, using it for housing, schools, and later as a storehouse. The building was completely robbed of every valuable object (furniture, expensive carpets, pieces of art), every wooden object, including the flooring in the building was used as firewood, tiles were stolen, and stoves were destroyed. The park has deteriorated so much that it is nowhere to be seen.
The heirs of the Haller family recovered the ancestral castle and donated it to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia.
