Sükösd-Bethlen Castle, Racoș, Brașov, Romania, Romania

Sükösd-Bethlen Castle

Racoș, Brașov, Romania, Romania

Sükösd-Bethlen Castle in Racoș, Brașov County, Romania, began as a late 16th-century noble manor documented from 1494 and expanded between 1620-1637 into a Renaissance fortress by György Sükösd, counselor to Prince Gábor Bethlen, featuring an innovative design with four circular corner bastions, defensive walls with embrasures, machicolations, and an interior corridor, marking it among Transylvania's earliest round-towered castles. Passing through owners like Budai Péter and into Bethlen family hands by 1694 via adoption, Samuel Bethlen added a five-level square gate tower in 1700 bearing the Bethlen snake crest, while serving as a luxurious residence with a famed Knights' Hall lost in 1918. Classified as historic monument BV-II-a-A-11754, partial 1990s restorations halted, it stands today amid village life as an evocative relic of princely-era Transylvanian nobility.

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Sükösd-Bethlen Castle is located in Racoș, Brașov, Romania, Romania.

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