For most of us, the noble families of Transylvania, the counts and barons, are mostly familiar from history books, and the reason for this is that the members of the aristocracy became victims of communist persecution decades ago, and because of this, most of them fled abroad.
However, after the regime change in 1989, more and more people returned to Transylvania to reclaim their ancestral property and create a new home in its old place. Farkas Bánffy, a descendant of the baronial branch of the Bánffy family, also referred to as the Fugad lordship, born in Hungary like his parents, set out in 2007 to recover the family property confiscated from his ancestors and to manage the family estate. The descendant of the Transylvanian noble family gave a detailed account on Székelyhon TV of the nearly 15-year struggle with the Romanian authorities and the judiciary for the Bánffy Forests, and also that, in addition to the refusal of restitution, he is also forced to face the fact that their properties that have already been returned will be sued by the Romanian state.
Romania does not want a large amount of land to come into the hands of Hungarian citizens, states Bánffy Farkas.
In Nézőpont, it will be revealed how a Hungarian lives in Transylvania, if he is a baron, why he considered it important to support the establishment of the scattered Hungarian community in Magyarlapád, what conservation of monuments, forestry, and dance camps mean to him. The interview with Bánffy Farkas on his estate in Fugad can be viewed on Médiatér's YouTube channel.
Source: szekelyhon.ro
