Rhédey House
Roamata, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
palace
dancing / concert hall
theatre/opera
Current function:
house, restaurant / confectionery / café
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7687680038, 23.5894510545
History
The first known owner of the former medieval house on the site was Steffen Münich, father-in-law of Unitarian Bishop Dávid Ferenc in the mid-16th century. A memorial plaque in Hungarian on the south wing's courtyard facade commemorates its extension in 1698. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, its owner, Vicei Máté, carried out major building works, which tripled its value. Between 1775 and 1777 it was converted into a Baroque palace by order of Rhédey Mihály or his wife, Countess Bánffy Terézia. Between 1777 and 1778 Bánffy Terézia had a ballroom built on the first floor, which was used for events of dubious morality. The ballroom was unique in Kolozsvár until the opening of the Vigadó in 1808. Between 1792 and 1793, it was rented by the first Hungarian theatre company, the Transylvanian Hungarian Noble Theatre Company.
It was rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century by Rhédey Mihály's grandson, Rhédey János (1799-1782). In 1892, Rhédey Johanna, Baron Petrichevich-Horváth Ödön's wife, donated 200 forints to place a commemorative plaque on the wall of her house on the centenary of the first Hungarian theatre company. In her will she bequeathed the property to the Reformed College of Debrecen. In 1899 it was converted into a tenement house. The Transylvanian Museum Association has been operating in the upstairs rooms since 2002.
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