Wolphard-Kakas House
Casa Wolphard-Kakas
Wolphard-Kakas House
Casa Wolphard-Kakas
Original function:
house
bank
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7697009763, 23.5909125991
History
The house was owned by the Wolphard family in the first half of the 16th century. Wolphard Adorján was the last Catholic parish priest in the town before the Reformation, and he rebuilt the house in Renaissance style between 1534 and 1541. The work was continued between 1579 and 1581 by his heir, Wolphard István, a prominent mathematician and astrologer, who was the chief magistrate of the town. He was the victim of the plague of 1585-86. It was finished by her widow, Barát Zsófia's second husband, Kakas István, a prothonotary of the Prince, between 1590 and 1592. In 1602, the owner of the neighboring house Bogner Imre purchased the house from Kakas István, who had to flee Transylvania.
Later it became the property of the chief magistrate Linczeg János. It was inherited by the Pákei family from his descendants, and in 1894 it was bought by the goldsmith Szathmári Elek. He demolished the oldest wing facing the street and had it replaced by a three-storey eclectic tenement house. The dismantled Renaissance window and door frames were transferred to the Transylvanian Museum. In the early 20th century the building was the headquarters of the Transylvanian Bank.
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