{"id":2081,"date":"2023-09-19T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carpathian-cultural-route.local\/?post_type=object&p=2081"},"modified":"2023-09-24T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T12:55:17","slug":"teleki-castle-coltau","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/carpathianculturalroute.com\/en\/object\/teleki-castle-coltau\/","title":{"rendered":"Teleki Castle, Colt\u0103u"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Colt\u0103u is one of the most famous places of pilgrimage linked to poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi in Northern Transylvania. M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai’s visits and Pet\u0151fi’s poems established Colt\u0103u’s literary reputation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colt\u0103u commune is located on the terrace of L\u0103pu\u015f 10 km south of Baia Mare Municipality, the capital of Maramure\u0219 County, in the north-western part of Transylvania. It consists of Colt\u0103u, the commune centre and C\u0103t\u0103lina \u2013 a belonging village. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first documentary attestation of the village comes from 1405 and is mentioned under the name Kolcho<\/em> in the document of the Convention of Leles (Slovakia<\/em>), signed by the voivodes Drag and Balc. It was later ruled by the Dr\u00e1gffy family, and since 1549 it belongs to the Land of Chioar and since 1615 the region belongs to the Principalities of Transylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1674 Colt\u0103u and C\u0103t\u0103lina come into the possession of the noble family Teleki, who receives the villages as a royal donation and would remain with this family until 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For centuries, members of the Teleki family have played a major role in the political and cultural life of Hungary and Transylvania, and the family has given numerous personalities to science, literature and domestic and international political life. Here are some examples of some of the family’s best-known personalities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Count S\u00e1muel Teleki (1739-1822) chancellor of Transylvania, man of culture, famous book collector, founder of the Teleki Library in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u25cf Count J\u00f3zsef Teleki (1790-1855), jurist and historian who served as President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1830 and 1855.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u25cf Countess Blanka Teleki (1806-1862) born near Colt\u0103u, in Satulung, was an educator and activist for women’s rights, founded the first girls’ school in Budapest in 1846, then was imprisoned for 5 years after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the property in Colt\u0103u, in the middle of the 18th<\/sup> century count J\u00f3zsef Teleki organizes an economic household and erects a baroque building. This building, for one hundred years, was used by the family only on the occasion of receiving guests who arrived on hunting raids, while the family had lived for generations primarily at the estate in \u015e\u0103rma\u015fu, Cluj County. The most famous owner of the castle was the “wild count<\/em>” S\u00e1ndor Teleki<\/strong>, being a disciple of the politician T\u00e1ncsics Mih\u00e1ly, travel companion of the musician Franz Liszt, the dearest colonel of the Bem and Garibaldi generals, the good friend of Pet\u0151fi S\u00e1ndor, Victor Hugo, J\u00f3kai M\u00f3r and Alexandre Dumas (father and son<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, Colt\u0103u has become a place of pilgrimage for tourists who love Hungarian literature. It is known that the great Hungarian poet Pet\u0151fi S\u00e1ndor, the poet of freedom and love, spent his honeymoon in Teleki Castle between September 9 and October 19, 1847. During this period of sweet harmony, the poet wrote 24 love poems to his wife. Under a horn in the castle park was born the most famous love poem “End of September” (translated into Romanian by Eugen Jebeleanu), being a true masterpiece of Hungarian and universal literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 18 years in exile, in 1867 S\u00e1ndor Teleki returned to Colt\u0103u and began to build the so-called “Red Castle”, now the headquarters of the local secondary school. At the beginning of the twentieth century, his son, Ioan Teleki, who lived at the castle in Colt\u0103u and managed the estate, when the family expanded, expanded the castle, modified it and rearranged it to make it more comfortable. Then they added to the building a terrace in the northwestern part of the castle, which offers a splendid panorama to the valley of the L\u0103pu\u015f River and the Gut\u00e2i Mountains.Teleki Castle in Colt\u0103u, which before World War II was famous for its private collection of precious objects, since 1960 houses the Pet\u0151fi S\u00e1ndor museum, which at first started with only a Pet\u0151fi memorial room, and at the beginning of the third millennium, expanded and occupied the entire floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting with summer 2020, tourists can visit the castle restored under the Regional Operational Program and co-financed by the European Union through the Regional Development Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restored castle consists of four levels: ground floor, first floor, cellar, where permanent exhibitions about the Teleki family are presented, visits of poet Pet\u0151fi S\u00e1ndor to Colt\u0103u, life of the “wild count” S\u00e1ndor Teleki, visit of writer J\u00f3kai M\u00f3r to the castle, and in the attic in the conference room you can visit temporary art exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the castle park there are several trees of rarity, several hundred years old, which evoke the atmosphere of the past: a black ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior), under which, according to legend, the fiddler P\u00f3csy Laci played to the composer Franz Liszt; three marsh cypresses (Taxodium distichum); a legendary horn, under which on a stone table the poet Pet\u0151fi wrote most of his poems at Colt\u0103u.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the park there are the following statues: the statuary group Pet\u0151fi-Szendrey (Pog\u00e1ny G\u00e1bor Ben\u0151, 1998); bust of Count S\u00e1ndor Teleki (Dinny\u00e9s L\u00e1szl\u00f3, 2008); bust of composer Franz Liszt (Dinny\u00e9s L\u00e1szl\u00f3, 2011); bust of General Bem (De\u00e1k \u00c1rp\u00e1d, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We suggest tourists to visit Colt not only on the occasion of tourist destinations in Maramure\u015f County, but also when they want to reach more distant lands. The guesthouses in Coltau, with a total reception capacity of 150 people, offer tourists high quality hosting services and local facilities. You can spend several nights here and daily you can visit in the shape of a star the historical Maramure\u015f and the north-western region of Transylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wish you pleasant stay!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","object-type":[68,57,30,39],"class_list":["post-2081","object","type-object","status-publish","hentry","object-type-castle","object-type-history-en","object-type-museum","object-type-romania"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTeleki Castle, Colt\u0103u - CARPATHIAN CULTURAL ROUTE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carpathianculturalroute.com\/object\/teleki-castle-coltau\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teleki Castle, Colt\u0103u - CARPATHIAN CULTURAL ROUTE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colt\u0103u is one of the most famous places of pilgrimage linked to poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi in Northern Transylvania. 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