The Castle from Erdőd

• 1215 the oldest documentary certification of this place is in ‘Registrum Varadiense’     
• Initially, the name of Herdeud meant forestry, a setting located in the woods, mentioned under this name since 1319 in the donation that the king of Hungary Charles Robert D’Anjou had made to the Satmar fortress.

• Bertalan Dragffy is the one who had built the stone fortress from Ardud in 1481, replacing a little fortress

• John Sigismund, the Principle of Transylvania, conquered the fortress in 1565, after a 40-day siege, being helped by Pasha of Buda and the leader of Timisoara, with a totaly of 40 000 soldier. During the fight the entire fortress was knocked down.

• Erdőd remained a domain of the Principle until 1629, when the Principle Rákoczy the 1st donated it to baron Karoly's widow, Zsengrey Borbála

• later on, Mihály Apafy donated it to the magnate Károly László, in 1663.

• 1730, Count Károlyi Sándor (in 1711, after the peace from Szatmár, the Habsburgs gave the title of Count to the Karoly family as a reward for having betrayed the uprising of Francisc Rakoczi the 2nd) replaced the old fortress with a castle-fortress.

• In what regards the four-towered castle with its underground cellars suffered serious deteriorations. The Hungarian Count Károlyi Lajos took down the roof of the castle, as he had to pay a large tax during the provisional state.

• 1896 some renovations had been made in , but the castle fell into ruins again.

• After the 2nd World War the castle was completely destroyed and many of the houses around the area had been built from the materials that remained after the demolition of the castle.

• Only the tower from the southwest part of the fortress still stands up, but this tower is also threatened by deterioration and degradation.
  

   For Me this condotion are inaceptable. Righ now I don't have founds to renovate the castle, but i know some day will be the same great gothic a castle.

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