Birthplace of King Matthias of Hungary
Casa Matia din Cluj
Birthplace of King Matthias of Hungary
Casa Matia din Cluj
Address:
Str. Matia Corvin 6.
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7711129538, 23.587555227
History
The oldest house in Kolozsvár that has more than one stories. In the 1440s, the house was owned by the wealthy vineyard owner Méhffi Jakab, who was unually the host of Szilágyi Erzsébet, mother of King Matthias, during her stays in the town. Hunyadi Mátyás, later King Matthias, was born in the house on 23 February 1443 (27 March, according to the inscription on the memorial plaque of his birthplace). On 28 September 1467, King Matthias of Hungary exempted the then owner of the house, Kolb István, son-in-law of Méhffi Jakab, his wife Orsolya and her sister Margit, and all their descendants from the tax on the house and the related estates. In the 1640s the house was bought by Kovács Gáspár, a town councillor. As the tax exemption applied only to Kolb István's heirs, the town authorities required the owner to pay the taxes on the house and land. Kovács Gáspár found his support in Prince Rákóczi György II of Transylvania, who in 1649 transferred the privileges to the house itself. This made the building extremely valuable and ensured its relatively unchanged survival. The eastern wing of the building was built in the 16th century, and the date 1578 is inscribed on the lintel of the doorway connecting the two wings.
Around 1740, the owner, Joó Borbála, sold the house to the town, and then the town let it for the establishment of a military hospital. Its Baroque extension towards the courtyard must also date from this period. It was a military hospital during the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848, but was badly damaged during this period.
When Emperor Franz Joseph I visited the town in 1887, the building was in a very bad condition and threatened to collapse. The Emperor scolded the town's magistrates for using King Matthias' birthplace as a military hospital and made a donation to have a plaque placed on the building. On 2 September 1889, a bronze plaque was unveiled on King Matthias's birthplace in the presence of the writer Jókai Mór and Orbán Balázs. The plaque was designed by Pákey Lajos and made by Zala György. Jókai Mór wrote a poem for the ceremony. The town restored the building around 1899. The building was then donated to the Transylvanian Carpathian Association. The association opened an ethnographic museum in it on 12 October 1902, which was evicted by the occupying Romanians in 1919. The council of the occupied Hungarian town had the Hungarian language bronze memorial plaque removed from the birthplace of King Matthias on 1 March 1921.
On 11 October 1925, the Country History and Relic Museum reopened its exhibition in two rooms of the house. Between 1945 and 1948, the Móricz Zsigmond College, which helped the education of poor young people, was located in the house. It is now the building of the University of Art and Design. There is a plaque on the building falsely claiming the Romanian origin of King Matthias of Hungary.
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