Szilasi Ágota, H.: Örökségünk védelme és jövője 4. - Kertek. A Dobó István Vármúzeumban 2018. február 8-9-én megrendezett Tudományos Konferencia tanulmánykötete - Studia Agriensia 37. (Eger, 2018)

B. Gál Edit: A gyöngyösi Orczy-kert - Veteményeskerttől a díszkertig

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16. kép A parkban lévő tó részlete a gloriettel (fotó: Magyar Balázs)

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The Vegetable and Floral Gardens of the Orczy Mansion in Gyöngyös

István Orczy became a landowner in Gyöngyös in 1708 after marryingjulianna Petrovay and inheriting 1 / 48 th of the Nyáry family’s estate. In 1723 the council transferred to him a plot of arable land alongside the carriage-road leading to Eger, where he established an inn with a garden. After his death, his son Lőrinc had this garden built in by erecting a two-storey Baroque hunting seat in 1770. A garden was also created around the house, partly serving as an ornamental feature and also as a kitchen garden. We only have a map of this Baroque garden and we can only use census data and account books to guess its original function and operation. The next period from which we have data on the history of the manor and the garden is after 1826, when the house was rebuilt in a classicist style. The new landowner, Lőrinc Orczy II expanded the garden around the manor by adding a 5-acre English garden. This is when the neo-Gothic greenhouse was built, which also served as a breakfast room during summertime. We have an increasing number of pictures and descriptions of the manor garden from the mid-19th century, when it was open to botany enthusiast for a long time. In the early 20th century there was a new development when, according to the needs at the time, a tennis court was built in the eastern section of the park for the owners, the Wildburg family and their friends.

When the property was purchased by the town in 1936, there was still a rose garden, a Japanese garden and an orangery in the northern part of the garden. In the 1950s the garden walls were demolished and as a result the microclimate, established over the previous decades, was destroyed and the plants started to die. The greenhouse was also demolished, the hedges on the northern side of the manor were cut out, the rose garden was dug up and an open-air stage was built in its place. Now we only have a few surviving parts of the English garden.

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