Renaissance, later baroque-classicist mansion, built on the site of a water castle, situated in the center of Gabčíkovo. It is surrounded by a castle park
The manor house is four-winged with two floors and a central courtyard. The entrance risalite, terminated by a tympanum, protrudes slightly on the SE facade. In the bay there is a segmented entrance with a coat of arms of the Üchtritz-Amade family. The main facade is dominated by two corner towers. The floor is separated from the ground floor on the facade by a cordon cornice. The facade of the mansion is divided by rectangular windows, which are located in the shafts with the window and window ledges. The courtyard facades have a shallow entrance bay, which is finished with a triangular tympanum. Opposite there is a balcony with forged railing on the front.The mansion rooms have vaulted hip vaults with lunettes and Prussian vaults. Renaissance cross vaults have been preserved in the left tract of the ground floor.From 1965 to the present, the manor house is serving as a retirement home.
On the site of the current manor house, according to some sources, there was originally a wooden castle, but more details about it are missing. The owner of this castle was supposed to be a certain came Vid from the Guth-Kelad family (the origin of the family allegedly comes from two brothers of Normandy, Viking origin Kelada and Guth), ie from the same family from which the owners of the later manor Amade family came. However, it can only be said with certainty so far that in the 17th century there was a Renaissance fortress with bastions, which was surrounded by a moat. The palace of the original castle, fortified by walls, stood on the site of today's SE wing of the manor house.
The manor belonged to the Amadeus, who became counts in 1782. At the end of the 18th century, Count Thaddeus had Amade rebuilt the manor into a Baroque-Classicist style. The ownership of the Amade family in Gabčíkov ends in 1845, when the family in the person of Tadeáš Amade died by the sword. The Üchritz family became the new owners of the manor. The manor house was not used after World War II.
The important Hungarian poet of the 18th century, László Amade (1704–1764), was born and raised in the manor house. Art objects collected over the centuries, as well as a valuable family archive, were stolen and destroyed after the end of World War II. Around the manor is a park, which is designed in a free landscape style and there are 12 species of exotic trees, e.g. Japanese sapphire, oriental sycamore, pavlovnia felted and others.
Empress Maria Theresa was also a frequent guest of the Amades in Gabčíkov. It is rumored that the Empress's son, later heir to the throne, Joseph II. he was to be born in this building and not in Vienna, as reported in the common literature.
After the nationalization, the manor house was completely abandoned for a while, later part of the building was used for political training of party officials, other parts for the needs of primary school, both Slovak and Hungarian.
At the beginning of the sixties, a secondary agricultural school was moved into the manor's premises, which was located here only for a short time. The manor house was gradually renovated. The focus of the renovation work fell mainly on the period in 1964-65. Reconstruction work also took place in the period 1989-92. From 1965 until today, the building has been a retirement home.
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The mansion is a retirement home, but there is no problem to get to the park