{"id":127,"date":"2024-03-16T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/?p=127"},"modified":"2024-03-16T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T11:21:12","slug":"the-baroque-palace-of-oradea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/the-baroque-palace-of-oradea\/03\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baroque Palace of Oradea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-QbXN8uy9w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Baroque Palace of Oradea, also known as Palatul Baroc Oradea, Muzeul \u0162\u0103rii Cri\u015furilor (Romanian: &#8220;Museum of the Rivers Country&#8221;) or The Bishopric Palace of Oradea, is located, as the name implies, in the city of Oradea in Bihor county, Romania. It was founded in 1762 by the Baron Bishop Adam Patachich, as The Roman Catholic Bishopric Palace of northern Transylvania. Illustrious Viennese architect Anton Franz Hillebrandt, designer of many Austrian palaces and one of Europe&#8217;s 18th century best, designed the palace and planned the city&#8217;s posh side as Baroque quarter, while engineer A.J. Neumann was in charge of the palace&#8217;s massive construction, complete with its 365 exterior windows resembling the days of the year and 120 large, extravagant rooms distributed on three floor plans. The complet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque_Palace_of_Oradea\">wiki article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The architecture of the palace is of late Austrian Baroque style, a more sober and practical type compared to the overly ornamented French Baroque, for example. The building was meant to resemble on a smaller scale the famous Royal Belvedere (palace) of Vienna, which likely was one of the reasons along with other religious conflicts that made Empress Maria Theresa of Austria repudiate the founder, Baron Adam Patachich, the bishop of Oradea between 1759 and 1776; he was then sent to another diocese, in Kalocsa, Hungary. Nevertheless, the baron was a charismatic, highly educated humanist and an illuminated patron of arts, who is mostly remembered for the fine music and musicians he surrounded himself with: this is where Michael Haydn, famous composer and Joseph Haydn&#8217;s brother, worked as a Kapellmeister in the bishop&#8217;s orchestra. The bishop also employed at the court other famous European composers and violinists like Wenzel Pichl and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, who between 1765-1769 served as a Musikdirektor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"3964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/the-baroque-palace-of-oradea\/03\/palatul_baroc-oradea\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Palatul_Baroc-Oradea\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Palatul Baroc-Oradea&quot; by Andymxm is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.\" class=\"wp-image-3964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=135002325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palatul Baroc-Oradea<\/a>&#8221; by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=User:Andymxm&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andymxm<\/a>\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/?ref=openverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baroque Palace of Oradea, also known as Palatul Baroc Oradea, Muzeul \u0162\u0103rii Cri\u015furilor (Romanian: &#8220;Museum of the Rivers Country&#8221;) or The Bishopric Palace of Oradea, is located, as the name implies, in the city of Oradea in Bihor county, Romania. It was founded in 1762 by the Baron Bishop Adam Patachich, as The Roman&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/the-baroque-palace-of-oradea\/03\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Baroque Palace of Oradea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[195,200,202,228,249,396,660,803,835,837,848,883,1103,1187,1189,1334,1344,1380,1481,1532,11,1706,1773,1780,1796,2096,2154],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palaces","tag-baroc","tag-baroque-palace","tag-baroque-style","tag-belvedere-palace","tag-bihor","tag-carl-ditters-von-dittersdorf","tag-days-of-the-year","tag-empress-maria-theresa","tag-europe","tag-european-composers","tag-exterior-windows","tag-fine-music","tag-hungary","tag-joseph-haydn","tag-kalocsa","tag-maria-theresa-of-austria","tag-massive-construction","tag-michael-haydn","tag-northern-transylvania","tag-palace","tag-palaces","tag-religious-conflicts","tag-romania","tag-romanians","tag-royal-belvedere","tag-transylvania","tag-violinists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Palatul_Baroc-Oradea.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IfKt-23","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166,"url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/bethlen-magna-curia-castle\/04\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":0},"title":"Bethlen Magna Curia castle (Deva, Transylvania)","author":"hrnicu","date":"April 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bethlen castle is located in a beautiful park at the bottom of the citadel hill, across the street from the beautiful turn-of-the-century Administrative Palace (Prefecture). 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