Margit Szapáry

Countess Margit Szapáry (née Countess Margarete Henckel von Donnersmarck; 21 February 1871 – 17 May 1943) was a German salonnière, philanthropist, and member of the German Catholic Women's Association.

Szapáry was born Countess Margarete Luise Laura Wanda Regina Henckel von Donnersmarck in Dresden on 21 February 1871.

[1] She was the granddaughter of an entrepreneur, landowner and industrialist Count Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck.

She married the Hungarian aristocrat Count Sándor Szapáry (1858-1904) on 18 July 1900.

In the 1930s and 1940s, she rented rooms in the castle to selected paying guests.