Esterházy Palace

The building block rising on the northwest corner of Széchenyi Square was created by the gradual assembly of five houses during the 18th and 19th centuries. Its most famous prequel was the former Angarano House overlooking the market square, a long, narrow, ground-floor corner building parallel to Jedlik Ányos Street, the history of which can be traced back to the end of the 16th century. In 1589, the building came into the possession of the rich former Venetian cattle merchant Lajos Angarano. The family lived in the building for four generations, nearly 100 years.

The uniform image of the building was determined by the 18th-century constructions of the Esterházy family. The property on the corner of the market was bought in 1770 by Count Gábor Esterházy. At that time, the large-scale construction works began, as a result of which the building received a regular shape, an upstairs tract and thus the appearance of a representative city palace. Special attention was paid to the baroque sculptural decorations of the facade, the closed corner balcony, which is a notable from Győr, and the design of the herm gate. The monogram of the wrought iron grid of the balcony above the entrance is preserved the name of the builder Gábor Esterházy, in the company of two griffins holding the sword adorning the family coat of arms.

In the 19th century, the building became the property of the Bozzay family, who created the final form of the large building complex by buying and assembling the neighboring houses. Finally, the building's three-street facades were merged using the baroque decorations of the Esterházy Palace in the 1920s.

Since 1997, the Esterházy Palace has been one of the most high-quality Hungarian private collections, the home of the Radnai collection. Following the decision of the city fathers, between 1996 and 1997, for this purpose, the complete, 18th-century reconstruction of the building was completed in the 18th century following the work of architect Miklós Foltányi and monument expert Gábor Winkler.

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