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Former County Hall, Town Hall

Former County Hall, Town Hall
Original function:
county hall
Current function:
town hall
Settlement:
Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca
Address:
Calea Moților 3
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7683727134, 23.5848567864
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History

The building was built in 1896-1897 as the seat of Kolozs County, based on the plans of Alpár Ignác in eclectic style. It became the seat of a Romanian prefecture after the Romanian occupation in 1919. Between 1940 and 1944, when the town was part of Hungary again, it served again as the county hall. In 1991, the town hall was moved into it on the initiative of the notoriously Hungarian-hating Romanian mayor of Kolozsvár, Gheorghe Funar.

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