Baczkamadarasi Kis Gergely Calvinist High School
Baczkamadarasi Kis Gergely Calvinist High School
Address:
Piaţa Márton Áron 2
Historical Hungarian county:
Udvarhely
GPS coordinates:
46.3028166946, 25.2951917484
History
Along with the Reformed Colleges of Nagyenyed and Kolozsvár, it is the most renowned Protestant educational centre in Transylvania, founded in 1670 by Count Bethlen János. On 26 April 1771, the old wooden building of the College was demolished, and on 2 May the excavation of the new foundations of the school began. As the money for the construction was running out, Professor Kis Gergely set out on a fund-raising tour of Udvarhelyszék, Erdővidék and Háromszék. By the end of the year, the Baroque building was completed. In 1886 a second floor was added in the neoclassical style. The atmosphere of the old colleges is preserved in the arcaded inner rectangular courtyard, with the memorial column of the rector-professor Backamadarasi Kis Gergely in the centre. Between 1910 and 1912, a new Art Nouveau building was built for the Reformed College, designed by Magyar Vilmos and inaugurated on 10 September 1913. In 1927, the college closed and the new building was later taken over by the teacher training institution (Benedek Elek Teacher Training College), which moved from Nagyenyed to the town. After the fall of communism, the college was reorganised.
The new building also houses the Scientific Library of the Haáz Rezső Museum. The germs of the college's library date back to the college itself, which began in 1670. Between 1682 and 1695, Rozgonyi P(ap) János, the founder of the library, acted as an intermediary between the school library and the donors of the first private collections. The school was rebuilt and enlarged by Backamadarasi Kiss Gergely in 1770-1775 and the library also got a new room. The present library, in addition to the library of the Reformed College, contains the surviving sections of the libraries of the Catholic grammar school, the State High School of Sciences and the Stone and Clay Industry Vocational School. Since 1990 it has been part of the Haáz Rezső Museum.
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