Szilasi Ágota, H.: Örökségünk védelme és jövője 2. A Dobó István Vármúzeumban 2016. február 4-5-én megrendezett Tudományos Konferencia tanulmánykötete - Studia Agriensia 33. (Eger, 2017)
Kárpáti János: A Dobó-bástya elpusztulásának valódi okai
KÁRPÁTI JÁNOS JÁNOS KÁRPÁTI THE ULTIMATE CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DOBÓ BASTION When such an important part of Eger Castle is destroyed it is only natural, years, even decades later, to consider what the causes which led to such an unfortunate event were. To this end it is necessary not only to seek out the immediate causes, but to understand what led to them occurring in the first place. This is necessary, not only because we know a considerable amount about this particular part of the castle, but because by undertaking an investigation, and understanding what happened, it may be possible to recognize the inevitability of what happened, and so be in a position to prevent anything similar happening again at Eger Castle, this our national treasure. The author considers the circumstances in which the bastion came into being during that short period preceding the Ottomans’ first siege of Eger Castle in 1552. This includes the appointment of István Dobó as castellan at the end of 1548, and the two and a half years leading up to the expected Turkish attack during which the bastion was built. We see how Sebestyén Tinódi, wrote down his personal experiences of visiting the castle after the siege, which appeared in print in 1554 as part of his chronicle, and how the bastion was depicted over the centuries. We also see how the bastion fell into a state of disrepair right up to the days preceding its total collapse. We hear how archaeologists investigated the bastion in the years leading up to the collapse, how the excavation of the bastion started, how the excavations came to a halt and how the site was fenced off when it was realised what dangers the archaeologists were facing. The author was present from the moment the bastion started to collapse to its final days of existence, documenting the demise with both photographs and geodesic measurements, while at the same conducting a rescue dig which he hoped would provide the data necessary to make a historically accurate reconstruction of the bastion possible. Now, forty years after the loss of the bastion, with the help of the data available to him then and all the conclusions that have been made since, the author has written up his findings. It forms the text of a presentation, given at the lecture theatre in the bastion's successor building, which also focused on the new direction the protection of ancient monuments is going in. 63
