Folia Historica 32. (Budapest, 2017)

II. KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Thury László: A sziráki Teleki-sírbolt szondázó falkutatása

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Az északkeleti oldal két befalazott ablakfülkéje. 2017. Miniszterelnökség (A szerző felvétele)

teljesen elkészült, hiszen kávájuk, könyöklőjük, teherhárító ívük és fülkéjük is megvan. Kibontásuk esetén azonban az epitáfium részben takarná az ablakfülkéket, az ablakokból beáradó fény pedig az epitáfiumot megtekintő látogatót zavarná. Ez alapján valószínűnek tartom, hogy eredeti, tervezett helyükön készültek el, azonban az epitáfiumot állíttató Róth Johanna a fenti okból befalaztatta őket.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE COUNT TELEKI MAUSOLEUM IN SZIRÁK

Summary

The count Teleki-mausoleum at Szirák was built by Johanna Róth in the year 1748. The tomb served for one and a half century as a funeral place of the Teleki-family. In 1955 the crypt was vandalized, the sarcophagus of Johanna Róth and the coffins broken, the bones scattered and the mausoleum was set on fire. The building was renovated in 1967 as far as possibilities allowed, but its condition continued to deteriorate. In 2011 a specialist group was set up by the director of the Hungarian National Museum to prepare the renovation. As historical reesearch and building investigation revealed in 2014, the mausoleum was built in a single phase. A parallel of the edifice was found to be the Beniczky mausoleum in Szügy, both were designed by the architect József Jung. The walls were all whitewashed, only the epitaph was coloured red, revealed by paint investigation. The anthropological examination of the bones collected in the crypt is still ongoing. In 2015, after the refurbishment of the crypt the separate funeral chamber in the south-east was opened up. The chamber is the resting place of István, the son of count József Teleki, who died in 1788 at the age of 20. The body and the bones were replaced in the crypt in the summer of 2016.

Restoration of the mausoleum started in the summer of 2017, during the works two previously blocked dead windows were identified on the north-east facade.

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