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The Karátsonyi comital arms, The Marczibányi-Karácsonyi Palace, Sremska Kamenica, nineteenth century

The Karátsonyi Couple Photographed at Adèle's in Vienna

1866–1876

The count's manor behind its conifers

late nineteenth or early twentieth century

Franz Liszt at the Keyboard With Count Guidó Karátsonyi, the 1873 Jubilee Group

1873

The Karátsonyi memorial tablet

after 1885 · document

The Marczibányi-Karácsonyi castle

1900–1918

Serbian-American Orphanage, The Marczibányi-Karácsonyi Palace, Sremska Kamenica, 1920–1941

Four views of the park at Kamenica

1922

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.