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Former Calvinist College

Former Calvinist College
Original function:
school
university / college
Current function:
abandoned
Church:
Calvinist
Settlement:
Máramarossziget, Sighetu Marmației
Address:
Strada Doctor Ioan Mihalyi de Apșa
Historical Hungarian county:
Máramaros
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.9283782459, 23.8829253402
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History

There are records of a Protestant school as early as 1540. In 1701 it was converted into a theological seminary. In 1802, construction of the new school building began. In 1837, the foundation of Count Buttler János started the legal education. In 1845, the theological education was discontinued, and later the legal education as well. In 1855 only the four classes of the grammar school were started.

In 1869 the law school was reopened. The building was extended with a three-storey wing in 1913. The Romanian occupation ended the ecclesiastical school in 1918, and a Romanian lyceum with a Hungarian section was opened in 1921. It is now empty.

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