Cselley House

Cselley House

On the Baroque-style Main Street of Magyaróvár stands the oldest residential building in the city. Its name preserves the name of the family of the last owner of the house. The public registrar, Cselley Kálman, also served as the chairman of the museum's architectural committee.

The beauty of the medieval dwelling house is presented in the reconstruction following the archaeological excavations carried out in the 1970s. Its iron-barred wooden balconies, rich carvings Its stone-framed windows suggest a late Gothic, early Renaissance dwelling.

The medieval atmosphere is conveyed by the remains of the plaster of the doorway, on which black and red chalk inscriptions, children's drawings and a blurred drawing of a watchtower can be seen. In the doorway is a baroque statue of St. Roch, which stands on today's Deák Square. One of the original side sculptures.


A brief history of the building

Dwellings were already built on the Main Street in the 13th century. In the 14th century, a square-shaped building stood on this site, which was expanded with a courtyard wing in the 15th century. The stone arch that houses the church dates back to this time. a barrel-vaulted cellar, and the upper room above it, whose columned vault was built in the 17th century instead of the old wooden ceiling. The Gothic windows and doors were created in the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance hanging corridor was also built at that time.

The street wing of the house was built between 1470-80. At that time, the upstairs great hall and the two adjoining enclosed terraces were designed. The dimensions of the upstairs great hall suggest a princely building. It was a royal estate of the Magyaróv´ri manor, the center of which received significant grants in 1354 from Erzsébet Lokietek, wife of Charles Robert, mother of King Louis the Great.

The elegant Baroque staircase, the iron-barred door, and the with sculptural figures, as well as the stucco decoration of the upstairs rooms and the foyer. In 1885, the building was remodeled in an eclectic style, the facade was decorated with ceramic tiles, and the roof was covered with glazed tiles.

The restoration - designed by János Sedlmayer - aimed to restore the proportions and details of the medieval building, while preserving the staircase and the upper floor. two rooms have a baroque character.


18th-19th century applied arts exhibition

In addition to the Gyurkovich collection, the Cselley House also houses an applied arts exhibition. The 17th and 18th centuries Among the 19th-century furniture, we can see a king-size bed made to order for a noble family from the Vltava region, as well as a late Renaissance chest of drawers. The high-quality lines of Baroque furniture are complimented by the richly decorated inlaid writing cabinets, chests of drawers and wardrobes found in the room.

The restored ceiling reconstructs the old coffered design. The religious oil paintings on the walls are the work of Austrian masters. The Viennese-made statue from the time of Maria Theresa is also worth noting, as is the gilded-framed mirror that decorates the former lord's apartment.

The exhibition also features furniture and other objects from the first third of the 19th century, arranged in an interior-style design. The furniture was made in the Empire and early Biedermeier styles, partly in Vienna and Bratislava, and partly in Mosonmagyaróvá.

The sofas, chairs, and side tables presented in the interior are of a different size. Tables and display cabinets with various glass and ceramic objects placed inside were popular pieces of contemporary interior design.

You can see the paintings on the walls of the room. Among the Biedermeier portraits, there are also some beautiful romantic oil paintings by the Hungarian portrait painter János Szále, made in the 1840s.


Gyurkovich Collection

The Dr. The collection of the city of Mosonmagyaróvár, which was assembled as a result of more than a decade of collecting work by Chief Physician Tibor Gyurkovich, offers an unparalleled selection of Hungarian paintings from the last two centuries.

The backbone of the material is made up of 19th century paintings, which include: They provide a picture from Biedermeier through Academism to the renewal movements that emerged at the end of the century. The number of artists is also impressive, including both the greatest individuals (Barabás Miklós, Borsos József, Székely Bertalan, Zichy Mihály, Munkácsy Mihály, Lotz Károly, Szinnyei Merse Pál, Ferenczy Károly, Mednyánszky László) and the venerable little masters. The stylistic diversity is coupled with the variety of genres: the traditional portrait; In addition to the portrait, the landscape and the spatial image also appear. The practitioners of the latter, at the time of the formation of civic national consciousness, increasingly turned to domestic themes and took the countryside, folk types and customs, as well as national history as their brush.


The 20th century In the midst of the turbulent artistic landscape of the 20th century, constantly seeking new paths, Dr. Tibor Gyurkovich remained faithful to the tradition of visual painting. On this path came masters such as Oszkár Glatz, who created in the spirit of impressionism, and the turn-of-the-century József Rippl-Rónai, influenced by the decorative tendencies of the French painter János Vaszary and István Csók, or Gyula Rudnay and Izsák Perlmutter, who struck a more dramatic tone, and Vilmos Aba Novak, who processed the lessons of expressionism and the Italian novecento.

The paintings are part of the entire porcelain collection of Gyurkovichné Mika Irén, which dates back to the 18th-20th centuries. It is a selection of the products of 16th-century European manufactories.


Roman Stone Archive

In the Roman Stone Archive, we can see mainly tombstones from the 1st century, which previously belonged to Moson County. They were discovered in Bruck&úacute;jfalu (Kir&áucute;lyhida), on the border of Nezsider &és K&ourtlértvélyes.


Gyurkovics Memorial Room

The former private collection of Chief Physician Dr. Tibor Gyurkovich, which can be visited in the exhibition rooms on the first floor of the Cselley House since 1989, features masterpieces of Hungarian painting from the 19th and 20th centuries. The art collector's nephew was Tibor Gyurkovics, winner of the Kossuth Prize. Although the poet had no family ties to Mosonmagyaróvár, he still wanted his intellectual legacy to be placed next to his uncle's collection. We will try to present Gyurkovics, who created outstanding works in the genres of short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and novels, with due respect, but with Gyurkovics' directness.


The memorial room, with objects and documents arranged at the request of Tibor Gyurkovics (1931-2008), offers a glimpse into the writer's everyday life. The receiver of the standing telephone is picked up and Tibor Gyurkovics, the music director, speaks. In the theater corner, we present the playwright and the color with the costume worn in the play entitled Fekvőtámasz. Theater posters, program notes, scripts, and scriptbooks illustrate the rich work of the playwright.

In the book's numerous volumes, you can find poems inspired by paintings. A beautiful example of the meeting of painting and poetry is Mihály Schéner: Lábbelik — Tibor Gyurkovics: His works entitled Shoes, which we have supplemented in the exhibition with the shoes that inspired him. In the mini-gallery of the memorial room, you can see a selection of works of art donated or recommended to Tibor Gyurkovics by friends of the artist. Among others, you can see the works of Amerigo Tot, Miklós Melocco, Líviusz Gyulai, Endre Szász. The exhibition is accompanied by a literary puzzle and crossword, which we recommend to both young and old.

Habsburg Crypt

The end of World War I also meant the end of the Habsburg family's rule. The Republic of Austria banned the Habsburgs from its territory and confiscated their property. Archduke Frederick of Habsburg, general, former commander-in-chief of the monarchy's army, settled in the Magyaróvár estate in the 1920s, lived here and became the city's first citizen (virilista). He was highly respected and popular in the small town, and there was no social event to which he was not invited.

The most beautiful Baroque monument in Mosonmagyaróvár is the St. Gotthárd Parish Church in the historic inner city of Magyaróvár. In 1932, the city offered the crypt under the church to the Habsburg family. Two years later, Archduke Albrecht began the design of the family tomb. Based on the plans of the city architect István Kovács, the external, new facade was created by the local stone sculptor György Péter. The new gate was decorated with a bronze, stone-framed coat of arms of the Habsburgs, and the vaulted spaces of the crypt were also renovated.

Archduke Frederick of Habsburg (1856‒1936) and his wife, Archduke Isabella of Croy-Dülm (1856‒1931), found their final resting place here. In the two corners of the crypt, the double-walled metal coffins of the archduchess couple were placed on catafalques carved from red marble. Each coffin is flanked by a white marble urn. In the central nave, behind a beautiful wrought-iron latticework, is the only altar carved from red marble from Tardos. The marble altar contains the relics of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop of St. Adalbert.