Zalău, Újvárosi house

GPS Coordinates:
47.17914 N, 23.05588 E

In the east side of the Zalău city centre next to the statue Wesselényi, we can see the past house of The Újvárosis. The date of the construction is unknown but in December 1881 the house was inherited by Újvárosi Julianna, who later on appeard as the wife of judicial enforcement Lőv Szilárd.

In1942 the house inherited by Dr.Nyárádi Szilárd, who donated to his wife Benedek Irén, from which it was nationalized in 1960. From that moment the house wasn't inhabited becoming the headquarters of some institutions. At the ground floor of the building the pharmacy Baier functioned, it had in front a Baier thermometer which track was lost in the past few years. Today it is a cultural centre which hostess the Library and the County Division of Culture and National Heritage Salaj.

Zalău, Ujvarosi house, Photo: Gáspár Attila

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