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House with the iron padlock

Casa cu lacăt
House with the iron padlock
Casa cu lacăt
Casa cu lacat Arad
Silenzio76, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
house
Current function:
house
Settlement:
Arad, Arad
Address:
Str. Tribunul Dobra 7
Historical Hungarian county:
Arad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.1686925687, 21.3181259744
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History

The house was built in 1815. In the arched recess protected by a locked metal railing on one corner of the house, the Ironed Stump, the symbol of the Arad guilds, was placed. The guild stump was made by a sculptor from Temesvár, Moritz Heim, on the commission of the Macedo-Romanian merchant Andrei Trandafir. In fact, it is a piece of tree trunk covered with a metal plate. Freed apprentices from the guild centres of Europe came to Arad to specialise, and as a sign that they had been here, they hammered different shaped rivets into the stump. The original stump is on display on the second floor of the Museum of Fine Arts.

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