Zádorvár romjai
These ruins are known as Zádorvár, and also as Himfy-vár, rising on the Derék-hegy—also called Zádor-hegy—between the small settlements of Barnag and Pécsely. You reach them via the marked trail from Pécsely to the 363-metre hilltop, where a Gothic-style castle built at the end of the 14th century once dominated the landscape. The earliest evidence on the site goes back to Neolithic times, when a workshop area dating roughly to 7000–4500 BC was identified beneath the surviving walls during 2018 excavations. A stone building is recorded in 1374, when Himfy Benedek, described as a local tax collector of King Louis I, erected a structure on the present castle ground—after which the Veszprém Káptalan complained and, following four years of litigation, the Himfy family left the site. …
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