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House of Vlad Dracul

Casa Vlad Dracul
House of Vlad Dracul
Casa Vlad Dracul
Casa natale di Vlad III di Valacchia, Sighișoara
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Original function:
house
Current function:
restaurant / confectionery / café
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.2195358068, 24.7928668602
Google map:

History

The oldest burgher house in the town. It has a 14th century Gothic core. According to tradition, Vlad II lived in the house during his exile in Transylvania between 1431 and 1436. He used the name Dracul (Dragon) from 1431, when King Sigismund of Hungary made him a member of the Order of the Dragon in Nuremberg. The order was founded by Sigismund in 1408. Vlad II became prince of Wallachia in 1436. It is said that his son Vlad III, alias Vlad Tepes, alias Vlad Dracula (meaning son of Dracul), was born in this house. Vlad Dracula raided the territory of Hungary, especially the land of the Saxons, on several occasions and carried off Saxons, whom he then killed with selective cruelty, envious of their wealth acquired through trade. There is no evidence that the house had anything to do with his family.

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