Help identifying this location in Hungary

[erichcraciun]

Hello,

the back of this foto says "Budapest, Ungarn" - I know this is not in the Budapest area - it could be the Tatra area, northeast of Budapest.

Does anyone recognize the castle in the background?

Thank you,

Erich

[Ian Jewison]

I think it is this place....can't find an old photo at the moment, however this is Trencín Castle (deutsch Trentschin auch Trenczin) in West Slovakia.
The three dark roofs and the building are a different colour and look newer so probably built after your photo was taken?

/Ian

[erichcraciun]

Good morning Ian!

That looks like it!

Thanks!

Erich

[kuratorium]

I think it is this place....can't find an old photo at the moment, however this is Trencín Castle (deutsch Trentschin auch Trenczin) in West Slovakia.

/Ian

You are right - here a evidence (old postcard, taken from the same place):

[kuratorium]

and nowadays:

[Ian Jewison]

Looks like restoration wasn't started until 1953 after years of decline.....

In the second half of the 18th century, the castle had lost all its importance. In 1783, on the order of the Empress Maria Theresia, the imperial troops left the castle too, and then on June 11, 1790, the disaster came in form of a fire that had swallowed the castle. Štefan Illéšházy II sold the castle to Baron Sina. But neither he nor his descendents were willing to invest in the castle, and they eventually donated it to the Trenčín town. Efforts for rescuing the damaged castle were taken already in the first half of the 19th century. However, all these attempts for the reconstruction were insufficient and incompetent. Only after the proclamation of the castle a National Cultural Monument in 1953, the turn for the better came. After an archaeological survey and proper project documentation, a real reconstruction was gradually started, and it lasts until the present time.

http://www.slovakheritage.org/Castles/trencin.htm
http://www.muzeumtn.sk/en/about-museum.html?page_id=396

/Ian

[erichcraciun]

Thank you both!

I was hoping to place this foto with the 357. ID in the October - November 1944 timeframe....a little too far west in Slowakei, but it might just be the division in transport to Hungary.

Erich