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About Szekely Gate

A székelykapu is not a door but a whole gatehouse cut from oak: three zábé posts under a kontyfa lintel with a dovecote punched through it, a scalloped shingle roof over the lot, and a carved kaputükör panel filling the field above two openings — the small one for people, the large one for wagons, always paired.

The ornament is flat and symbolic, not botanical. A thick-stemmed vine climbs in red, and in Máréfalva's convention its leaves are painted blue for the Sky, with green holding the lower Earth zone. Cut into the 45° brace, in clean Roman capitals, is the year and the owner's name.

Learn more about the Szekely Gate style

Origin
Székely Land, eastern Transylvania, Romania — Máréfalva (Satu Mare) and Parajd (Praid), Harghita county
Era
17th century onward; the surviving Máréfalva and Parajd gates largely pre-1900
Key figures
village kapufaragó gate-carvers · Máréfalva owner families named on the hónaljkötés braces · Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság
Movements
Hungarian folk woodcarving · Székely vernacular timber joinery · painted folk ornament of the Carpathian basin

Szekely Gate design spec

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Typography

CinzelHeadings
AlegreyaBody
Noto SerifMono
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