The painted patent of the comital arms granted to Guido Joseph Ludwig Karátsonyi of Beodra: a quartered shield with a lion, a bull, a bear and further charges, held by a crowned lion and a griffin, five crested helms above it with their mantling in red, blue and silver, and the motto PIETATE HONORE ET PERSEVERANTIA on a red scroll below. The title is written in German script across the top of the sheet.
About this place
The Marcibányi-Karácsonyi castle stands in the Kamenica park at Sremska Kamenica, on the right bank of the Danube across from Novi Sad. It was built in stages between 1797 and 1811 for the noble Marcibányi de Puho family, and was rebuilt and enlarged between 1834 and 1836 after the Karácsonyi family came into the estate. The building is classicist, with Doric columns, carved decoration and ornamental ironwork, and it is unusual among castles of its kind because its plan is not symmetrical. Castle and park together are protected as a spatial cultural and historical ensemble of great significance, and the building now holds a faculty of European legal and political studies, the Nikola Mirkov documentation centre and offices of the national hydrometeorological service. The count who enlarged it, Guido Karacsonyi of Karacsonyfalva and Beodra (1817-1885), came of a Transylvanian Armenian family and was a friend of Franz Liszt, who gave a concert in the Karacsonyi palace in Buda in 1873. Guido had married Anna Maria Marczibanyi of Pucho and Csoka in 1851, which is how the two family names came to stand together on this house; the memorial tablet to them both is still on the building.
On the card
Grafenstandswappen / Des Guth besitzers Guido Joseph Ludwig Grafen von Karátsonyi zu Beodra / PIETATE HONORE ET PERSEVERANTIA
Comital coat of arms of the estate owner Guido Joseph Ludwig Count Karátsonyi of Beodra. / By piety, honour and perseverance.
- Date
- nineteenth century
- Coordinates
- 45.22552, 19.84259
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 691 × 719 px
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