Görög House
Cercul Militar
Görög House
Cercul Militar
Original function:
palace
town hall
bank
Current function:
military headquarters / administration
Address:
Piața Trandafirilor 2
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5464590125, 24.5638713366
History
The house took its present form in the 1830s. In 1849, the Hungarian revolutionary poet Petőfi Sándor set out from here for the Battle of Segesvár, which is commemorated by a plaque on the building. It is now the House of the Army (Cercul Militar).
The corner house, built at the end of the 18th century as a one-storey building with Baroque style features, was added two storeys by the owner Görög József (probably a Greek merchant, who integrated into native Hungarians) between 1827 and 1828. At the time of the merchant's death, the St. George Street part of the building was still unfinished, completed in 1838 by the widow and descendants. In the middle of the 19th century, it was one of the tallest buildings in the town, with officials living on the upper floors and shops on the ground floor.
The house has hosted many balls and aristocratic events. Between 1848 and 1849, the building was used by the Town Council, as the old Council House was damaged and burnt down by the Austrian General Gedeon during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. On 30 July 1849, the general staff of General Bem József was stationed in Marosvásárhely, and the poet Petőfi Sándor stayed here as a guest of the Görög family before leaving for the fateful battle of Segesvár, where he disappeared for ever. In 1852, Emperor Franz Joseph I also stayed here. From 1868, it was the seat of the Marosvásárhely Savings Bank, symbolised by the beehive embossed on the facade as a symbol of thrift. Established in 1868, it was the oldest and most prestigious Hungarian financial institution in the town.
In 1884, a memorial plaque was placed on the facade of the house in memory of Petőfi Sándor: Here was a man; from here he set out on a great journey, To become a star, his light will shine forever. In 1912, the Petőfi memorial column was erected on the square in front of the building, but it was vandalised after the Romanian takeover, later converted into a Romanian military monument, and then it was taken from the town by the Romanians during their flight after the Second Vienna Award.
After the communist nationalisation in 1948, the Görög House first became a grain collection centre and then the property of the Romanian Army. For a time, the White Horse Restaurant (not to be confused with the White Horse Inn on Kossuth Street) was located in the basement.
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