Bory Castle

Bory Castle is a special, variable artistic quality building complex built and decorated in Székesfehérvár by architect and sculptor Jenő Bory (1879–1959). It was built from 1923 for roughly 40 years. Today it is partly used by descendants of Jenő Bory, but the largest part is visitable as a museum.

Bory, the designer architect, was also the construction manager, the plasterer, the mason. From the castle’s dungeon to the observation towers its height is 30 metres. Seven towers, thirty smaller and larger rooms, including three studios, everywhere statues, pictures, antiques, artworks. An interesting fact is that the castle’s material is concrete, which was pioneering in its use.

In the corridors surrounding the hundred‑column courtyard of the castle, great figures, heroes, singers and kings of Hungarian history line up from leader Álmos to Tinódi Lantos Sebestyén.

Alongside the pictures and statues of Jenő Bory and his wife Ilona Komócsin (both pupils of Bertalan Székely), and of their daughter Klára (pupil of Glatz), we can meet in the castle the works of: Bertalan Székely, Bertalan Karlovszky, Aladár Körösfői‑Kriesch, István Csók, Elek László Fülöp, Lajos Márk, István Bosznay, Péter Szüle, Ferenc Márton, Béla Iványi‑Grünwald, Jenő Haranghy, János Fadrusz, György Zala, Alajos Stróbl, Miklós Ligeti, János Dankó etc. The “excerpt” catalogue of Bory Castle lists almost 400 works, but there are several thousand there.