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Castle with a romantic atmosphere and picturesque beauty

Scharioth Castle

In 2018, the Scharioth family bought the former Földváry Castle, later the office building of Szölöskert MgTsz. Although the building was in good condition, it no longer bore its historic features due to the turbulence of the centuries and eras that have passed. However, the building's qualities allowed the Scharioth family to realise their dream and turn the old "TSZ office" into a magnificent neoclassical castle.

After researching many sources, the style was inspired by the wonderful classicist buildings of Joseph Hild.

The renovation started in summer 2020. During the construction, antique building elements and columns from the Scharioth family collections were removed. The columns at the entrance to the building and on the terrace of the inner garden are made of granite. They were originally located in the Admiral's Palace in Berlin.

The cast-iron columns that decorate the terrace of the main façade, which also support the roof structure of the terrace, were the supporting pillars of the Berlin S-Bahn, which were replaced during a renovation and thus became private property. The cast iron columns were designed by the famous German architect Hugo Hartung.



There are a total of 8 timpanons on the building. The stucco decorating the terrace of the main façade is made of plaster. The original angel figures surrounding the arched windows are from the Wienerberger brickworks and are made of terracotta. As there were originally only a few of the terracotta angels, the figures decorating the windows were made of plaster, which perfectly matches the arch of the window.



The stucco above the windows of the façade is originally Zsolnay, a pair of which still decorate the Swan House in the centre of Pécs.


The terrace's sphinxes are from an English park, which were purchased at an auction by the international auction house Schloss Alden before construction began.


The terrace railings were made by a Polish blacksmith's mill, modelled on those of the Vienna Stadtbahn. These railings are still a feature of Vienna's cityscape today.



On the NY side of the wing, you enter the spacious lobby, where a painting of a notable family immediately catches your eye. The Kemnitzer family, who opened a café on the banks of the Danube in 1793. On the first floor of this world-famous café was the furniture shop of the famous Austrian furniture maker Josef Ulrich Danhauser.

Below the painting is a museum-quality, original sofa from the Danhauser furniture factory.

The Empire table with eight angular marble tops in the middle of the room, decorated with Etruscan-style paintings, was in the salon in Wenselsbad in Schöntal, now the Noveradia in the Czech Republic.

From here, we enter the Rhedey Claudia Room, whose most impressive furnishing is an Empire table with black gilt ornamentation. One of its special features is that it can be extended to a length of 7m 40 cm, so that 24 people can sit comfortably. The table was designed and made in the 19th century by the Mainz cabinetmaker Wilhelm Kimbel. It originally came from an aristocratic palace in Stuttgart.



The gilded neoclassical chairs and sofa at the table were designed by architect and designer Nicolaus Friedrich von Thouret for the palace of the King of Würtenberg in Stuttgart. The furniture is marked and was added to the royal palace in the 1820s. When Claudia Rhedey de Kisrhede visited the royal palace in Würtenberg she may have sat in these chairs.

Claudia Rhedey de Kisrhede's portraits are on display in the room along with other famous paintings. One of them, id. Károly Markó's large-scale painting, which depicts a typical Italian countryside.

The castle's guest rooms are furnished with original Empire and Biedermeier furniture, and the rooms are decorated with chandeliers by Danhauser.

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