Sárvár
Nádasdy Castle and Museum in the town of Sárvár
The construction works of the Nádasdy castle in the town of Sárvár began at the end of the 13th century. Following the royal’s work, it was the Kanizsai family who built a castle with fortifications and a palace with wings and a closed courtyard. The really great and decisive construction was carried out in the era of Tamás Nádasdy (1549-1562)
In the era of arbiter, Ferenc Nádasdy III. the tower and the palace wings were linked (middle of the 17th century), thus one of the greatest Baroque knights’ halls came to existence. The paintings of the battles were made by Hans Rudolf Miller in the year 1635 and show the fight of Ferenc Nádasdy II., the ‘black bey’, against the Turkish forces. The side walls show paintings by Steffan Dorffmaister, from a century later (1769), and depict scenes from the Old Testimony.
Permanent exhibitions in the Ferenc Nádasdy Museum:
All painted rooms of the Nádasdy-castle can be found in the area of the museum.
Printing and book publishing on the Nádasdy properties. Tamás Nádasdy, the humanist, established 1554 a school and a press in Sárvár. The first book to be published in Hungarian, the New Testimony, translated by János Sylvester (1504-1551), was published here. A reconstruction of former printing machine helps us understand this noble science.
The Husar(1526-1945)
The exhibition shows the history of this typically Hungarian horse-ridden military unit, the Husar, from the beginnings to the end of World War II. The foundations of the collection were laid by members of the Nádasdy battalion “returning” from Vienna 1983.
Carta Hungarica – Map history exhibition
It was László Gróf, born in Sárvár but living now in Oxford, who donated these maps, decipting Hungary in the 16th-19th centuries. The maps of János Zsámboky and Wolfgang Lazius about Hungary appeared in European map collections.
Exhibiton on industrial arts
In one part of the exhibition you can see furniture, carpets, silver and china from the 16th-19th centuries, coming from different castles. An extra room shows the colourful world of historic glass.
