The fortified renaissance manor house is located in Lukáčovce, northwest of Nitra, near Lukáčovce ponds
The mansion has a one-lane layout and is an exemplary example of smaller fortifications. It is represented by a small castle with a regular quadrangular floor plan with sides about 52 m long and corner, slightly extended towers. According to research, the fortress on the side of the hill in the past was separated by a wide moat. Under the mansion there are underground corridors leading out to several directions. However, these are largely overwhelmed.One wing of an early gothic building from the 15th century was saved, but the rest of the mansion is dilapidating.
The first mention of the manor house in Lukáčovce is from the 15th century in the Zoborská listina. A Gothic manor house from the third third of the 15th century probably stood on the site of the manor house. The local chronicle and older authors of the history of the village allegedly also mention the presence of the Knights Templar and the original building as their monastery. If this were true, the building would be one of the oldest castle architectures in our territory. However, this information is not substantiated.
The manor is an exemplary fortress, which consisted of a smaller castle with a regular quadrangular floor plan and corner towers. According to research, the fortress on the side of the hill was separated by a wide moat. The manor also included a park, which, however, disappeared for years. Under the manor there are underground corridors leading out of the manor to several parts of the world. However, these are mostly overwhelmed.
From the architectural point of view, the current form of the manor house can be divided into nine construction stages (I. Gojdič, Design for Restoration, 2001). In the course of them, from a typical single-storey block building of the Gothic manor, characteristic of landowners from the 15th and 16th centuries, it gradually changed into its current form. The most important construction stage, which imprinted the building today with its present appearance of a Renaissance fortified manor house, was the third construction stage from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The reconstruction of the manor into a manor was prompted by the relatively large increase in episcopal estates and the growing Turkish danger in the early 17th century. The L-shaped ground-floor buildings became a two-winged complex with a ground-floor economic tract, giving the manor today's square floor plan.
Despite insensitive alterations and devastation during the socialist regime, the manor has retained much of it and is still clear from its peak development in the Renaissance-Baroque period.
At the turn of 1999-2000, the manor house was acquired from the Episcopal Office by the Municipal Office, which intends to save the monument and try to reconstruct it. At present, the municipality cooperates with the Alexu Civic Association on this goal. Many partners have already given a helping hand in the project, which has made it possible to carry out monumental and archaeological research, replace the complete truss on the main tract and lay a new roof covering.
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The mansion is in private hands, accessible is only the exterior