Kondorosi Csárda, Kondoros

The claim

A roadside csárda where eight roads meet on the Békés plain, with a granary attached and a museum of the outlaw years inside. The house dates itself about 1740; men from Gyoma burned that first adobe-and-reed building in 1783, and the baroque one standing now went up the following year on the Harruckern estate. The kitchen cooks Hungarian food, the cellars and the chimney passage are shown to visitors, and the drinks card runs from draught beer to Békés pálinka.

What the records show

The house dates itself about 1740, at the meeting of eight roads, and says it has been receiving guests since 1784. Hungarian Wikipedia gives the fuller account: a first house of adobe and reed in the early 1740s, builder unknown, burned by men from Gyoma in 1783 out of revenge, and a baroque csárda with a granary raised in 1784 under Baron Ferenc Domonkos Harruckern. The first mention it can point to is the military survey of 1784; Szarvas leased the csárda in 1801 and again in 1826, and it later belonged to Mátyás Vostyiár, an innkeeper, and then to Pál Bagi, a publican. So the claimed 1740s rest on local tradition with no document behind them, which is why the year is graded as tradition, and the record is forty-four years later. The Hungarian monument register, entry 2495 under törzsszám 9655, dates the standing house to about 1784 and describes its fabric down to the drinking room's open chimney over a barrel-vaulted wine cellar and a pálinka cellar across it. A drink without a meal is not in doubt: the csárda publishes a drinks card of its own, valid from 25 November 2025, with draught beer by the fifth, third and half litre, Békés pálinka at three and five centilitres and spirits by the measure. The register's condition report of February 2024 records the house in good order and in use, and the kitchen was posting weekly menus in September 2026. The town's own history adds a second account, and it is about the road rather than the house. Kondoros the municipality publishes a history of the place which follows the puszta through its eighteenth-century tenancies: Szebeni Rácz László leasing Nagy-Kondoros in 1730, the Bulgarian-born Ferenc Prentics in 1744, 450 forints paid for it in 1747, and half of it handed over in 1754 to Harruckern's serfs at Szarvas. What made Kondoros known, it says, was the csárda built beside the Csaba-to-Szarvas highway; opposite it, about 1852, a gendarme barracks went up, officially to keep an eye on the csárda as a nest of outlaws, though the town suspects the real object was the Batthyány mansion at Csákó four kilometres off, where Hungarian gentlemen gathered to hunt and course through the Bach years. When the village was refounded on 23 December 1875 under the act of 1873, the owner of what the town calls the already famous Kondoros csárda, György Reguly, was among the men who founded it, and the town says the village settled where it did because of those two buildings, the inn and the barracks. None of that dates the house. The page names no document for the 1740s and does not say when the csárda was built, so the claimed year stands where it was, as tradition; what the town's account fixes is the order of things, an inn standing and known before the town around it existed.

Dated evidence for Kondorosi Csárda, earliest first
Year	What	Source
1740	Claimed founding	The pub
c.1784	Present building	Hungarian monument register, törzsszám 9655, read at muemlekem.hu: baroque, built about 1784, with the drinking room's open chimney over two cellars
1784	First record of a drinking house here	Hungarian monument register

What to look for inside

Stands where eight roads meet on the Békés plain
Burned by men from Gyoma in 1783 and rebuilt in baroque form the next year
First named in the military survey of 1784
Arany János set a poem beside it; Petőfi and Erkel came through
The cellars and the chimney passage the outlaws used are shown to visitors

Visiting

Kondorosi Csárda is in Kondoros, Hungary, at Hősök útja 23, 5553 Kondoros. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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