Which Hungarian Baroque palace is located in Fertőd?

The Hungarian palace located in Fertőd is Eszterháza.

Eszterháza was created by Prince Nikolaus Esterházy around an earlier hunting lodge at Süttör. Plans for the grand residence developed after Nikolaus became reigning prince in 1762, and the palace was first inhabited in 1766. It is often called the “Hungarian Versailles” and is generally described as Hungary’s grandest Rococo building, within the broader Baroque tradition of 18th-century court architecture.

The estate contains 126 rooms, formal gardens, an opera house, a marionette theatre, and richly decorated ceremonial spaces. Its cultural fame is closely tied to Joseph Haydn, who lived and worked there with the Esterházy orchestra from 1766 to 1790. The palace’s isolation helped shape the musical life of the court—and inspired the story behind Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.

Eszterháza is easy to confuse with Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Esterházy family’s ancestral residence. They are separate palaces about 40 kilometres apart. Fertőd’s Eszterháza is the Hungarian estate built as Nikolaus Esterházy’s ambitious new princely centre.