Rakoczi Museum


Hungarian Prince II. Frenc Rakoczi lived for 15 years between 1720 -1735 in the house number 32 on Barbaros Street in Ertuğrul District. This house was purchased by the Hungarian Government in 1932 and converted into a museum. Rakoczi family in Hungary XVII was one of the wealthiest landowners at the turn of the century. Three people from this family took the throne of Erdel under the auspices of the Ottomans. Frenc Rakoczi (1676–1735) led the Hungarian revolt against the Austrians. In the meantime, Erdel Bey was elected in 1704, and then he was declared a ruler in 1705. However, it was unsuccessful in the war of independence against Austria, which occupied Hungary. II. After living in Poland and France for a while, Frenc Rakoczi took refuge in the Ottomans in 1717 and stayed with Sultan III in Tekirdağ until his death. He lived safely in the house that Ahmet bought for him.

Rakoczi lived in Tekirdağ in 24 houses close to each other. Later, these houses were combined and took the form of a mansion. The only building that has survived from these buildings is the dining hall of the mansion. After Rakoczi's death, a museum was planned to be built in his name in Hungary, for this the decorations and interior equipment of the house were taken with Rakoczi's ashes. Due to the World War II, the idea of ​​this museum could not be realized in Hungary. Thereupon, the Hungarian government restored the building in Tekirdağ between 1931 and 1932 by a Hungarian architect and turned it into a museum. After that, the house in Tekirdag was restored once again in 1981-1982, while copies of the reliefs of the dining hall, which were previously dismantled, were prepared and placed in their old places. The purpose of the restoration of the house is written on the Turkish and Hungarian inions at the entrance of the museum. There is also a large oil painting of French II Rakoczi in the entrance hall. In the museum, the items used during the reign of  Frenç Rokoczi II and the documents related to his life are exhibited in the museum. On the second floor, there are oil paintings of Rakoczi and those who participated in the Hungarian War of Independence.

While this house in Tekirdağ is shown as a symbol of Turkish-Hungarian friendship, it also bears the characteristics of an old Tekirdağ Ottoman house.

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