Barczay mansion
manor, mansion
205m
Košice, Košice county

The Barczay mansion, probably built on the foundations of the castle, is located in Barca - the local part of Košice, which lies in the southern part of the city in the Košice basin

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Previous names
Barcha
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How to get there
In Barca, the local part of Košice, we will get to Abovská Street, which we will follow next to the Local Office, which is right next to the post office. The road is a bit wider here, we can park the car here, but a little further, in the street called the Square of Young Farmers opposite the church, there is a smaller parking lot. Following the path next to the post office, we will walk along the Barčiansky Park to the back of the manor house.The entrance gate is located almost opposite the Calvinist Church, however the Mansion in Barca is in private hands and we will not get to the manor house from the front because it is completely fenced.
Description

The main façade of the mansion has a centrally shaped buttress with a tympanum with a cornice and a plastic coat of arms. Marginal bays have pyramidal roofs. In 2.half of 19th century a neo-renaissance tower with crenellation was added to the mansion.The mansion is currently under reconstruction, originally a hotel was supposed to be here, but the mansion was sold to another company that is now repairing it.

History

The castle, built in the 13th century by the Barczay family, probably stood on the site of the current manor house. Later, an original Baroque mansion was built here, built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The manor got its current form in 1840, when it was rebuilt in the Classicist style. It was then that they discovered the foundation stone in the background of the building, where the date 1454 was engraved, which was a confirmation of the theory of the presence of an older building on the site of the current building.

Modifications and additions continued in the second half of the 19th century, when a historic pseudo-Renaissance tower topped with a battlement was added to the manor house.

This manor house was used by the Barczay family practically until 1945. They did not stay here permanently, but they used this manor house mainly as a summer residence.

From 1955, it housed the Youth Home of the Secondary School of Agriculture and Technology. The manor later changed owners who planned to build a hotel here. Since In 2013, the manor is owned by another company, which reconstructs it. In 2018, reconstruction work was still underway here.

History images
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Myths and legends

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Useful information

The mansion is in private hands, not open to the public.

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