History of the manor house in Nitrianska Blatnica

REMAINDER: THE FOLLOWING TEXT BELOW WAS TRANSLATED AUTOMATICALLY THROUGH THE GOOGLE TRANSLATOR AND WAS NOT EDITED UP TILL NOW. I AM VERY SORRY BUT THE EDITED VERSION WILL FOLLOW SOON.

Link to the text below

​

According to historical sources relating to Nitrianska Blatnica, there was a fortified settlement in the village at the beginning of the 15th century called "fortalitium" or "castellum". The owners of the medieval fortified manor have recently been elaborated in detail in the monograph of the village by Ján Lukačka, the text of which I based on. At the beginning of the 15th century, the nobles of Ludanice became the new owners of the village. In the years 1403 - 1404, they became involved in a revolt against Sigismund of Luxembourg, which was the reason for the confiscation of their residences in Ludanice and Nitra Blatnice. The monarch awarded both buildings for 2,000 piles of Czech groschen to Poliak Donin of Skrzynna. In 1412, the ruler of the nobles of Ludaníc pardoned him, but they had to buy the estates from Donin. They no longer had 1,000 piles of groschen to buy "castella" in Blatnice, so Donin continued to use it and in 1430 left it to his relative Stibor Jr. from Stiborice. In 1434, the castle lord of Beckov founded the manor for Štefan of Šalgoviec for 1,500 gold coins. The last mention of the "castelle" originated on April 27, 1437, when Sigismund donated the manor and the manor to his longtime adviser and familyman Michal of Zend.1 From the second half of the 15th century until the end of the Middle Ages, no written records of the existence of a village. The researched sources from the first two thirds of the 16th century also did not mention any building on the territory of Nitra Blatnice, which in the meantime was divided among several aristocratic owners and part of which was part of the Levice castle estate and the other Revište castle estate. It was the development of the ownership of the mentioned dominions that was closely connected with the creation of a new residence either on the site 1 LUKAČKA, Ján. Nitrianska Blatnica in the Middle Ages. In TRSŤAN, Drahomír (ed.). Nitrianska Blatnica. Nitrianska Blatnica: Obec Nitrianska Blatnica, 2010, p. 32, 33. 61 of a medieval building or with the use of its remains, which, however, could not be determined on the basis of sources. After the extinction of the Bohemian family from Levíce (or Lévai) at the beginning of the second half of the 16th century, Levice fell into the hands of King Ferdinand I of Hungary, who donated the castle on 13 September 1560 to Duke Stefan Dobův of Transylvania (∗ 1505 † 1572) and his brothers. The estates in the territory of the Nitra capital included shares in Nitrianská Blatnice, Krtovce and Šarluška (today Lužany). In Nitrianská Blatnice, unlike other localities, they did not write that there was a building.2 Likewise, no building was mentioned in the document of Ferdinand I of November 20, 1563, which confirmed the ownership of the Revište estate for the brothers Mikuláš and Gabriel Dóczyov. The castle located in Tekovská stolica, as in the case of Levice in Nitrianska stolice, had shares in the villages of Nitrianska Blatnica, Šarluška and Krtovce.3 The owners of Revišť and Levíce had their own residences and were not interested in building a new one in Nitrianska Blatnica. The situation changed when on June 29, 1564 at the Seredné Castle (now Ukraine) Štefan Dobó, in the presence of representatives of the Spiš Chapter, donated shares in Nitra Blatnice, Krtovce and Šarluška to his nephew Ladislav st. Zelemeri and his heirs of both sexes. He justified Dobó's donation by saying that Zeleméri was expelled by the Ottomans from his original family property and at the time of Dób's capture in Transylvania he defended his uncle's estates from the followers of Queen Izabela's widow and expelled Izabel's followers from Dobó's manor in Pavlovce nad Uhom in Užská stolica. Zeleméri later had a document confirmed on March 16, 1569 by King Maximilian in Vienna. 4 Ladislav st. Zeleméri was one of the leading anti-Ottoman commanders and at least from 1574 he held the position of income administrator of the Archbishop of Esztergom.5 He used the income mainly to build a fortress in Nové Zámky, and therefore his property could become the target of robberies of the Ottomans. For this reason, on February 5, 1583, Rudolf allowed the Esztergom county and income administrator of the Archbishopric of Esztergom, Zelemérim, to rebuild two of Ladislav's mansions, one in Nitra Blatnice and the other in Borša in Zemplínska stolica, on fortified mansions.6 1569 - 1583 a manor house was established in Nitrianská Blatnice and then a fortified settlement. After the death of Ladislav st. On January 29, 1592, Zeleméri divided the "house and stone manor" in Nitrianska Blatnica and the respective shares in the villages of Nitrianska Blatnica, Krtovce, Šarluška, Šalgovce, Horné Otrokovce, Behynce (now a local part of Veľké Ripnian) and Mošovce (now a local part of Považian) in the Nitra seat among his sons and wider kinship. The lower part (probably the ground floor) of the "stone manor" was given to Štefan Zeleméri, and the upper part (probably the thought floor) by Ladislav Jr. The greengrocers, while the gate, the cellar under the house and the chapel remain common. The sons of the poor daughter Ladislav st. Anna Zelemériová Ladislav and Peter Forgách. Even before the agreement was signed, Ladislav Jr. gave up the divided upper part of the "stone manor" in favor of his sister Katarína Zelemériová and her husband Ján Jr. Bossányiho.7 Brothers Štefan and Ladislav Jr. The Zelemér family did not leave any male descendants, and therefore the Dóczy family became interested in their residence, as they were co-owners of shares in the village. 2 Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár (hereinafter MNL - OL), fond (f.) Magyar Kancellláriai Levéltár (hereinafter MKL), Libri regii (hereinafter LR) 3, pagina (hereinafter pag.) 653-655. Genealogical table of the genus Dóbo available on the Internet June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/dobo.html. 3 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of the Interior Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1563, number (no.) 1. NAGY, Iván. Hungary and the Czech Republic and the National Council III. Pest: Nyomatott Beimel J. and Kozma Vazulnál, 1858, p. 335. 4 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1569, no. 2. 5 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1574, no. 1. 6 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1583, no. 1. 7 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1592, no. 1. MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1609, no. 2. 62 claims of the Zeleméri heirs along the women's line, which provoked protests from the Forgách and Bossányi families throughout the 17th century. He first received a donation to the "aristocratic mansion in the form of a manor house" in Nitrianská Blatnice with shares in the same village, Šarluška and Krtovce. Andrej's son Štefan Dóczy, who bought Michal Chery and subsequently sold them for three thousand Hungarian gold coins to Imrich Dóczy, cousin Andrej Dóczy9 Later, on September 2, 1609, representatives of the Nitra capital confirmed that Dóczy, for half of the residence in Nitrianska Blatnice, belonging to Sara Dóczyová, widow of Ladislav Jr. Zelemérim, paid 6,250 gold.10 Imrich did not stop in an effort to acquire property, even before he asked Matthew II. for the issuance of a document by which the monarch declared the purchase of the Forgách and Bossány family's shares by Michal Chery on 11 December 1609.11 Tekov County governor and royal cellar Andrej Dóczy responded to Imrich's interests by keeping Matej II from 3 December 1609. to confirm the older donation from the monarch's brother Rudolf to the "aristocratic mansion in the form of a manor house". 12 Imrich Dóczy finally changed his decision and sold the "whole manor house or stone house" in Nitrianska Blatnice to Michal Chery and Ján Bornemisz for 5,016 Hungarian gold coins, which was confirmed on 21 May 1611 by representatives of the Nitra Chapter.13 Both nobles did not keep the manor for a long time years at Šintava Castle on July 9, 1614 Ján Bornemisza sold “the whole manor house or stone house of poor Ladislav st. Zelemery built in the form of a fortification (fortalitia) ”for 5,500 Hungarian golds, the main captain of the fortress, Vác Štefan Dóczy, and his heir of both sexes. On August 20, 1614, Štefan Dóczy had the validity of the sale confirmed by King Matej II.14 According to other documents, the profit of the manor also concerned Štefan's wife Magdalena Thurzová from the Spiš branch.15 Štefan Dóczy was briefly survived only by his son Adam Dóczy, who died as a child, and therefore, on September 3, 1641, the palatine Mikuláš Esterházy ordered the chapter in Nitra to transfer the "aristocratic manor" in Nitrianská Blatnice to the sons of Ján Jr. Michal and Ján Bossányi, Petr and Ladislav Forgách and Žigmund Baraniai.16 Only Michal Bossányi remained the real owner of the manor. .17 In the middle of the 17th century, it became clear that the Dóczy family was on the verge of extinction, and the widow of Baron Štefan Hédervárim, Baroness Alžbeta Eszterházyová (∗ 1616 † 1668), became interested in their property. First, on June 14, 1648, before the convent in Hronský Beňadik, through a representative, she protested against the brothers Melichar and Ladislav Dóczyov that Revište Castle and the "manor house" in Nitrianská Blatnice were founded by Count Štefan 8 MNL - OL, f. MKL, LR 5, pag. 759, 760. NAGY, Hungarian Family III, p. 335. 9 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1607. MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1609, no. 7. 10 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1609, no. 11. 11 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1609, no. 2. 12 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1609, no. 9. 13 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1611, no. 12. 14 MNL - OL, f. MKL, LR 6, pag. 491–493. 15 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1614, 1615. 16 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1641, no. 9. SZLUHA, Márton. For some members of the family II. kötet LZ. [CD-ROM]. Budapest: Heraldika Könyvkiadó, 2003, Bossányi, Nagybossányi, nemes és † gróf, ill. Nagybossányi and Nagyugróczi nemes and † bar, ill. General and Bishop's Table, Table X. 17 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state administration Office number P 1291, package 68, year 1641. NAGY, Hungarian family, p. 335. Ferdinand III. On December 5, 1648, Abbot Ján Hédervári acknowledged the validity of this document at the intercession of Elizabeth's brother-in-law and at the same time confirmed that Elizabeth and her young son Baron Vavrinec Hédervári were to inherit Revište and Nitrianska Blatnica.19 As Vavrinec Hédervári Hédervári could not have any official descendants. At the same time, the monarch determined that Elizabeth would be able to use the property until her death and pay 40,000 gold for the transfer of inheritance rights.20 “She gave her cousin, the Knight of the Golden Spikes and the undercaptain of the Rab Fortress, Baron Ján Eszterházy (∗ 1625 † 1692). She repaid her relatives for their financial help and initiative in obtaining an inheritance from the Hédervár family for Elizabeth, her daughter and son-in-law. 21 However, the rights of the Bossány family, who protested against the transfer of ownership but eventually had to retreat before the influential Eszterházy family, were taken over when the manor was taken over, and on January 26, 1688, they concluded an agreement in Bratislava with Ján Eszterházy, meanwhile promoted to the county. The new holder paid the Bossányi family 3,000 Rhine gold coins to settle the litigation and compensated.22 Ján Eszterházy wanted to settle in Nitrianska Blatnica, so he had all the buildings, including the fortifications, repaired after a contract with the Italian master Pietro Spazzo. On the basis of the agreement of December 10, 1666, it was possible to clearly prove that both mansions were already standing at that time. Spazzo was to receive 625 gold, wheat and wine for the reconstruction. In the area of the "outer mansion" he had to make a corridor with columns and vaults, new vaults in two flares on the ground floor on the right, a new bakery oven in the cooking chamber on the left and a double window in the flare where the chapel used to be. In the "inner mansion" on the upper floor, he undertook to make window walls and a new ceiling in the "hall or palace". They will build new tiled stoves, chimneys, window and door linings in both manors. He will only repair the toilets in the "outer mansion" and build new ones in the "inner mansion". In both mansions, it adjusts the entrances to the truss. He will also clean the facades of both mansions and apply new exterior plasters. It can also modify the interior of all rooms of both mansions, where improvements will need to be made. He will also install new windows in the new chapel. When modifying the four bastions of the square form, it will use bricks, and if necessary, it can rebuild some of them from the foundation and, if sufficient, repair, replace or supplement the damaged masonry. As part of the repairs, he will be able to repair whatever is necessary inside and outside.23 After the death of Count Ján Eszterházy, an agreement was signed on 1 March 1695 with John Viczay's son Adam Viczaym ). At the same time, the Viczay family waived the right to buy 18 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy család zólyomi ágának levéltára Uradalmi iratok P 1291, csomó 68, rok 1648. Genealogical table of the Hédervári family available on the Internet June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/heder2.html. 19 MNL - OL, f. MKL, LR 10, pag. 191–195. Genealogical table of the Hédervári family available on the Internet on June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/heder2.html. 20 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1658, no. 20. Genealogical table of the Hédervári family available on the Internet on June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/heder2.html. 21 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1660, no. 1. Genealogical table of the genus Esterházy available on the Internet on June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html. 22 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1688. 23 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 73, year 1666, no. 13. 64 manor house from the Eszterházy family back. 24 The free and childless František Eszterházy was the last member of the family to stay in Nitrianská Blatnice in the first third of the 18th century, and therefore his relatives first backed up the manor and later sold it. After the death of Count Francis st. On August 9, 1747, a detailed inventory of two mansions standing in Nitra Blatnice was created by Eszterházy. The "front mansion" was smaller and the "rear mansion" larger with a tower. Both buildings were surrounded by a fence in the manner of a fortification. The two-storey "front mansion" was 30 feet long and four feet wide. The shingle roof was in a neglected condition. There was a corridor with eight glass windows on the upper floor along the entire length of the manor. The floor of the staircase consisted of a flare with three glass windows, while the flare was arched together with the corridor and the floor was made of bricks. There was also an ordinary green tiled stove in the flare. Upstairs, they also wrote two flares with a brick floor, a neglected slab ceiling, and two windows in each. From an unspecified flare, a wooden staircase led up to the truss. Next to the stairs to the lower floor, there was a flare with two glazed windows, an ordinary green tiled stove, a slab ceiling, and a brick floor, where the manor used to be. Next to it stood a small arched skylight with one window and a brick floor. From there, we went into a large flare called the kitchen with one window, a brick floor and a board ceiling. Next we went to another vaulted large flare with two windows and a brick floor, which, like the next two flares, served as a warehouse. On the lower floor was a corridor similar to the floor with nine windows without glass. In the outer part of the ground floor in the corner opposite the east were two flares with a small pitvorček with a board floor. Next, we descended to the cellar under the manor house, which is used to store garden things. As he passed west through the manor gate, he arrived at a prison and two stables for fourteen ordinary horses. In the mansion on the inside to the west of the central gate, there was a large vaulted kitchen with one window. From there, to the east, there was a cellar with a wine press, once serving as a chapel with two windows without glass. The two-story "rear mansion" was fifteen lanes long, ten lanes wide, and its tower twelve lanes high. The shingled roof was in the middle condition. On the upper floor, an empty ten-span, three-span palace with ten side flares stretched out in the middle. All rooms had brick floors and vaulted ceilings. There were triple green simple tiled stoves, three latticed windows, six glazed windows, and the other unspecified windows without glass and bars. From the pit in the middle of the manor, wooden stairs led to the tower, but the ground floor was walked up the stone steps. On the ground floor, they wrote an autopsy, a kitchen, an empty ten-meter-long and three-and-a-half-meter-long palace. This included another nine vaulted flares with a brick floor, where they saw three glazed and barred windows, the rest without glass and without bars. Beneath the manor house was a large eleven-meter-long, three-quarter-meter-wide cellar. There were two wells in the manor house. Next to the manor house, there was a plum garden to the west, where there was a well and a plum drying room above it. From the back of the manor there was an orchard with several types of trees. To the east of the manor house was another garden with various trees.25 After the death of Francis Eszterházy, after the death of František Eszterházy, the manor passed into the hands of his more distant relative, the Imperial-Royal Butler, Counselor of the Royal Governor's Council, Knight of Zlatá Ostrohy, Count Karol Eszterházy (26. it was not at all in the manor house, as evidenced by its condition and empty rooms. The inventory of manors from Karol's time from 1754 is described in description 24 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 68, year 1695, no. 39. Genealogical table of the genus Esterházy available on the Internet on 28 June 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html. 25 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 72, year 1747. 26 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy család zólyomi ágának levéltára Uradalmi iratok P 1291, csomó 72, rok 1753. Genealogical table of the family Esterházy available on the Internet June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html. The 65 "lower mansion" essentially coincided with the description of 1747, and the use remained almost the same. They added that in the middle of the courtyard between the two manors there was a fountain in the upper stone enclosure with the coat of arms of the Zelemér family. The entrance to the second mansion was through a three-story tower. The lower floor of the "upper mansion" began from the east with two lanes long and two and a half lanes wide, to which a two-and-a-half lane long and two lanes wide flare was connected. There was a two-and-a-half-meter-long and two-and-a-half-width kitchen with a side two-and-a-half-meter-wide and a long kitchen. From the autopsy, you entered the lower ten reaches long and three and a half reaches wide. From the east side of the palace, there was a three-lane long and two-lane wide flare, then a two-lane long and three-lane wide chamber. Adjacent to the chamber was another two and a half lanes long and two lanes wide chamber. The south side of the ground floor had three flares and one chamber. The chamber was two feet long and four feet long and two and a half feet wide. Adjacent to it were three and a half yards long and two and a half feet wide, the second three and a half feet long and wide, and the last three and a half feet long and two feet a wide flare. All rooms on the ground floor were vaulted. The rooms on the first floor had devastated vaults and similar proportions as the rooms on the ground floor. The roof was in very poor condition and the chimneys were in danger of collapsing. On the other hand, the mayor's building was in good condition.27 After the death of Count Karol Eszterházy, his surviving widow, Countess Amália Limburg-Stirum (∗ 1724 † 1799), invested in repairing the manor. After some time, Amália decided to gradually acquire the Želiezovce estate for herself and her children, and therefore on February 28, 1760, she founded the manor of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce Adam Rajcsány (∗ 1699 † 1766) for 30,000 gold castles in Nitra Blatnice his wife Anne Maria Platthy († 1765). Amália allowed Rajcsány to further modify the "upper manor house" and to establish a brewery and distillery in the "lower manor house". 28 On 13 March 1760, when Adam Rajcsányi took over the buildings, they drew up a new description in which, in the case of the 'upper mansion', they recorded several alterations to the living quarters. The "lower manor" did not change significantly compared to the previous years 1747 and 1754, but received a completely new shingle roof. A fountain with the coat of arms of the Zelemér family remained in the fortified area of both buildings. At the tower of the "upper mansion" they mentioned that it had four floors. The description of the ground floor of the manor coincided with 1754, noting that they made a new baking oven in the kitchen and placed several new wooden bars on the windows.29 Compared to previous years, they recorded a detailed inventory of the first floor, where several modifications were made towards baroque modernization. Upstairs there was a stone staircase in the tower. From there, one entered the pit, from which, to the left to the west, one entered the first flare facing south, where there was a new ordinary green tiled stove and one window with new panel shutters. From the flare it was transferred to the second flare with a new extremely valuable green tiled stove and two completely new windows. In the partition between the first and second flares, a chimney led in the wall, removing smoke from the heating of both tiled stoves. From there we went to the middle flare with a new board floor, two new glazed windows with painted green Italian shutters and a "beautiful Italian" green tiled stove, decorated with gold garlands, a black eagle and the coat of arms of the Eszterházy family. When the kiln was put through a flare through the door, it was partially damaged, but a local bricklayer repaired it. The middle flare had three doors, one leading to the second flare, the other to the "hall or palace", and the third to the fourth flare opposite the mountains. In the fourth flare there were two new windows and a new ordinary green tiled stove. From this flare one entered an adjacent chamber with one glazed window without shutters. In 1759, all the windows and doors of the said flares on the west side were supplemented with "French" bars and painted with "iron" paint. Zo 27 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 72, year 1754, no. 32. 28 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state level Office supplies P 1291, package 69, fasc. 6, year 1760, no. 22. SZLUHA, Márton. For some members of the family II. kötet LZ. [CD-ROM]. Budapest: Heraldry Library, 2005, Rajcsányi, Rajcsányi, table II. Genealogical table of the genus Esterházy available on the Internet on June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html. 29 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy család zólyomi ágának levéltára Uradalmi iratok P 1291, csomó 72, rok 1760. The double-glazed windows on the east side had new wooden bars. To the east, in the pitvorček, another flare approached the door with one new window with wooden grilles and an attached toilet. From there you went to a similar flare without a door with new windows with wooden bars facing the mountains. There was a chimney in the wall between the two flares mentioned, but so far there were no tile stoves in the rooms. Although there was no tile stove in the palace, in the middle there was a fireplace heating and flares adjacent to the palace and facing the mountains. One flare on the side of the palace had a new door facing the mountains with new "French" bars painted "iron" and one window opposite the mountains with glass in targets and an outer painted "Italian" shutter. To the right of the last-named flare, another staircase climbed the stairs with a new tiled stove with an attached chamber with an entrance to the toilet. Like the others, both rooms have new windows. From the autopsy room, wooden stairs also led to the truss. In 1758, they repaired the entire roof of the manor and placed a red marble stone with the coat of arms of the Zeleméris in the wall of the palace. There was an orchard and plum orchard with a fruit dryer near the manor. Behind the mansion to the north was a "manor" garden surrounded by a high fence and in the middle with a stone fountain with two metal tanks where water flowed.30 Adam Rajcsányi chose Nitra Blatnica as his main residence, and therefore continued further alterations to the manor, which On May 14, 1763, representatives of the Nitra seat inspected the residence to see what he had repaired in the meantime since 1760. The restored building also embodied Adam's position as a councilor of the Royal Governor's Council. First of all, they mentioned that they had restored the fortifications around the manor house together with the towers in its corners. The towers and sections of the fortifications were covered with new shingles, and the use of corner towers has changed in part. The tower in the west corner, which served as a stable and was in a desolate state, was repaired and staired to the truss hay storage area. The hitherto unused tower in the southern corner was whitewashed and repaired. The third unused tower in the eastern corner was turned into a flare and completed with a chimney. The fourth tower, which served as a depot, was repaired and whitewashed. In the "lower mansion" they only modified the cellar. In the "upper mansion" in the flare, where Adam Rajcsányi used to be, they dismantled the green tiled stove and transferred it to another flare and made a new green "boarded" tiled stove. The floor was given new battens and two new green "Italian" shutters were installed on the windows. They also put new similar green shutters and a new board floor in the fourth corner flare from the census from 1760. They changed the side chamber into a flare, re-plastered it, enlarged the windows and placed a green tiled stove here. They repaired doors and windows in the adjoining chamber. In the palace, the original two windows with wooden bars were replaced by glazed ones. In the flare, which was entered from the palace to the east, they made two new doors - one to the palace and the other to the toilet. Through the third door we entered a flare, where they exchanged one window with a wooden lattice for a glazed window and moved a green tiled stove from the first mentioned flare upstairs.31 After twenty years, Adam Rajcsányi's son Adam Rajcsányi and his wife Baroness Anna Moraveczová † 1822) On August 25, 1780, the manor house in Nitrianska Blatnice was handed over to Count Kazimír Eszterházy (∗ 1749 † 1802) by Amália Limburg-Stirum's son .32 Under an agreement of May 26, 1781, Eszterházy paid Rajcsány 3,000 gold coins for repairs of 30 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state administration Office number P 1291, package 72, year 1760. 31 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of the President P 1291, package 72, year 1763, fasc. 6, no. 27. 32 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state level Office supplies P 1291, package 69, fasc. 6, year 1780, no. 38. SZLUHA, Nyitra vármegye II, Rajcsányi, Rajcsányi, table II. Genealogical table of the genus Esterházy available on the Internet on June 28, 2016, www.genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html. 67 buildings and litigation costs in the amalgamation of property and another 30,000 gold for investments in agriculture, economic property and furniture.33 After the return of the manor on July 8, 1782, a new inventory was created, which, unlike previous inventories, also captured the residence's facilities. In the "upper mansion" on the ground floor in the "lower palace" there were four cabinets, two vegetable chests, a small chest for dried fruits, in the "back chamber" at the toilet a barrel, in the "front chamber" at the toilet a large chest for dried fruits, in the chamber on the side of the entrance to the palace flour and various kitchen items in the flare next to the kitchen and kitchen. Upstairs they registered a "upper deck" with seventeen paintings and several armchairs, a toilet, a "back chamber, a front chamber" with a mangel for linen, a flare at the entrance to the palace where they stored wood, an adjoining flare with two beds bought in Bratislava and three paintings, a flare on the right side of the "small hall opposite the garden" with three tables, eight paintings and a green sofa. According to the "small hall", it was clear that it served as a dining room with a marble table, twelve green chairs, seven portraits, a sideboard, one large mirror, and several tables. Behind the dining room, to the left, opposite the "lower mansion," was a flare with three paintings, a single bed, five green couches, and larger armchairs. They found one bed, two leather armchairs and three paintings in a neighboring flare. Of the lower manor house, they mentioned only the flare, which once served as a chapel, with a bed and a table.34 and his wife Juliana Motesiczka (∗ 1733 † 1797) and their heirs of both sexes. Eszterházy sold the property to prevent the buildings from collapsing due to the need for the residence for their own housing.35 The subsequent transfer of possession to Zerdahelyi took place on April 15, 1784. Zerdahelyi held the post of sub-governor of the Nitra seat and was a royal adviser. He and his wife lived alternately in Bojná, so Nitrianska Blatnica served as a subsidiary and the situation changed only after the independence of Zerdahelyi's four sons and the so far unsubstantiated allocation of the purchased manor to Pavel Zerdahelyi (∗ 1760 † 1824). a member of the family, he was an imperial-royal chamberlain, a robe of Rab and Esztergom, a councilor of the Royal Governor's Council, a knight of the Council of St. Stephen and in 1802 he was promoted to the county. Paul's wife, Baroness Anna Hunyadyová, introduced young František Palacký to a higher society and enabled him to become an educator in Hungarian aristocratic families. She also received the highest female award, the Star Cross. wife of Countess Eleonóra Pongráczová in Mnešice (∗ 1801 † 1848). Nitrianska Blatnica remained in Viktor's hands until at least 1841.38 Viktor Zerdahelyi either sold the manor to Gustav Appel (∗ 1804 † 1903) either in 1848 or before, who used Nitrianska Blatnica until 1870.39 33 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state level Office supplies P 1291, package 69, fasc. 6, year 1781, no. 41 and A. 34 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of the Interior Uradalmi iratok P 1291, package 71, number 5. 35 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the state level Office supplies P 1291, package 69, fasc. 6, year 1784, no. 44. SZLUHA, Nyitra vármegye II, Zerdahelyi, Nyitrazerdahelyi nemes és † gróf, tabulka II. 36 MNL - OL, f. Eszterházy family member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of the President P 1291, package 72, year 1784, fasc. 6, no. 44 and A. SZLUHA, Nyitra vármegye II, Zerdahelyi, Nyitrazerdahelyi nemes és † count. 37 HERUCOVA, Marta. Tombstone of Pavel Zerdahelyi in Nitrianska Blatnice. In Monuments and museums, no. 2, year 2005, year. 54, p. 61–63. SZLUHA, Nyitra vármegye II, Zerdahelyi, Nyitrazerdahelyi nemes és † gróf, tabulka II. 38 Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic), State Archive in Nitra (hereinafter ŠAN), f. Regional Court of Nitra, inventory number (hereinafter i. No.) 1007, carton (hereinafter k.) 151. SZLUHA, Nyitra vármegye II, Zerdahelyi, Nyitrazerdahelyi nemes és † count, Table II. 39 MV SR, ŠAN, f. Nitra Regional Court, i. no. 1007, k. 151. 68 He received his university education in Vienna at the Faculty of Arts and Medicine, where he studied veterinary medicine. He then worked at the Economic Institute in Stuttgart and later in Hohenheim. From there he returned to Mojmírovce, where he held the post of inspector of the manor from 1830 to 1839, and after his father's death in 1839 he was retired as the economic director of the Mojmírovce dominion. He gained a very good reputation by introducing modern steam agricultural machinery in the processing of agricultural products and breeding horses.40 In 1871, the manor was bought by the Austrian businessman Alojz Haase, who was documented as the owner of the residence in the 1878 land register.41 After Alojz Haas, the manor was inherited by his daughter Mária Haase († 1922), married to officer Kurt Leonhardy, documented in 1904 as the owner of the residence. After her death, her son Anton Leonhardy (∗ 1898) became the heir, who married Alžbeta Winterová, the daughter of the tenant of the Piešťany spa, Ľudovít Winter. The couple were the last owners of the manor until the end of World War II.42 6.3. Analysis of iconographic sources To get to know the appearance of the researched building after the Baroque reconstruction, the basic drawing of the area from 1752 is essential. Lower and Upper. The lower manor house is a two-storey rectangular building with a hip roof divided by vicars and chimneys. The entrance was situated in the axis of the manor. The floors are divided by a cordon cornice. The upper manor house is shown from the south as a block two-storey building with round attic windows and a mansard roof. The building probably had a sloping plinth. The front south façade was highlighted by a slender entrance tower with a portal and upper floor windows. At the 3rd floor level, there was a sundial on the south facade of the tower. The tower was slightly shifted east of the axis of the southern facade. At the level of the crown of the manor, there was a plastic ledge on the tower. The tower was covered by an onion roof. The facades on the sides of the tower were biaxial, with smaller windows on the 1st floor and large windows on the 2nd floor divided by crosses. The attic was lit by round windows. A cordon ledge ran between the 1st and 2nd floors. A well was situated west of the manor. On the north side, a fenced manor garden joined the fortified area. 40 KERESTEŠ, Peter. The Apples - economic officials of the aristocracy. In Monuments and museums, no. 1, 2009, vol. 58, p. 33, 34. 41 MV SR, ŠAN, f. Nitra Regional Court, i. no. 1007, k. 151. MV SR, ŠAN, f. Nitra Regional Court, i. no. 526, k. 151. 42 Institute of Geodesy and Cartography Bratislava, Central Archive of Geodesy and Cartography, map and parcel protocol of Nitra Blatnice, signature Ni 290. KOLLÁR, Miroslav, Noble families connected with the history of Nitra Blatnice in the years 1526 - 1918. In TRSŤAN, Drahomír (ed. ). Nitrianska Blatnica. Nitrianska Blatnica: Obec Nitrianska Blatnica, 2010, p. 76