Originally an early Renaissance manor house with fortifications, it is located in the village of Nitrianska Blatnica, in the NW part of the Nitra Uplands, at the foot of the Marhát hill in the Považský Inovec mountain range.
The manor house was fortified with two bastions, but after reconstructions it lost its fortress character. It is a two-storey block building with a rectangular floor plan. The Renaissance period has two stages. In the first stage, the floor plan of the manor house acquired its current shape with an entrance tower. The central courtyard was surrounded by single sections on three sides and the fourth eastern side was closed by a full wall. The building was two-storey and the tower was open. In the second renaissance stage, the tower was closed and the manor house was built with an attic with round window openings. The decorative geometric decoration of the corners, the crown of the attic and the crown of the tower with sgraffito became a significant enrichment of the facades. The Baroque reconstruction later brought radical changes. The inner courtyard was built up and a staircase was added to the entrance tower from the west side. Most of the rooms were vaulted with barrel vaults with sections. In the 19th century, stone portals and window linings were probably replaced. The building received a new, mansard roof.In the 1970s, the manor house was radically repaired for plaster, roofing and wooden structures. The walls in the middle tract were removed, creating one space, the barrel vault was torn down and the space was vaulted with a false vault. In most rooms, the floors made of artificial stone were replaced, the parquet floors were removed. At present, the manor house is dilapidated, only the roof and the tower have been restored. The manor also includes an English park. In 2016, an architectural-historical research was carried out, the aim of which was to periodize building history and link them to the names of specific owners.
- Source: Miroslav Matejka
In 1583, King Rudolf allowed Ladislav Zeleméry to rebuild two of his mansions, one in Nitrianská Blatnice and the other in Borša on a fortified manor house. Ladislav Zeleméry was one of the leading anti-Ottoman commanders. It could be deduced from the permit for permission that a manor house was established in Nitrianská Blatnice between 1569 and 1583, and after 1583 a fortified manor house. The manor house was fortified with two bastions, but after various reconstructions it later lost its fortress character.
After the death of Ladislav in 1592, Zeleméry's property was divided between his sons and his wider family. The last descendants Štefan and Ladislav Jr. Zeleméry did not leave any male descendants, so the Dóczy family became interested in their residence. At the time of the acquisition, however, the Dóczy family did not respect the property claims of the Zeleméry family's heirs along the women's line, which provoked a wave of protests.
In the middle of the 17th century, when the Dóczy family was on the verge of extinction, the widow of Baron Štefan Hédervár, Baroness Alžbet Eszterházy, became interested in their property. Ferdinand III. in 1648 he confirmed the fact that Alžbeta and her little son Baron Vavrinec Hédervári were to inherit Revište and Nitrianska Blatnica. However, Vavrinec Hédervári died as a child and the last male descendant of the Ján Hédervári family could not have any official descendants. In 1658, King Leopold I left Hédervár Castle and the manor house in Nitrianská Blatnice to the daughter of Alžbeta Eszterháza and poor Štefan Hédervári, Baroness Katarína Hédervári and her husband Ján Viczay. Elizabeth lived mainly in Hédervár and did not show much interest in the manor. Therefore, she donated half of the manor to her cousin Ján Eszterházy. Ján had all the buildings of the manor house repaired, including the fortifications, and further modifications were made during the second late Renaissance construction phase, including the adaptation of the entrance portal to the basement or the facades. The preserved documents show that it was a quasi of 2 mansions - outer and inner, or upper and lower. The last owners of the Eszterházy family were František and after his death in 1747 Karol Eszterházy. After Karol's death, his widow, Countess Amalia Limburg-Stirum, also invested in the manor, from whom Adam Rajcsányi and his wife Anna Maria Platthy received a deposit for 20 years. Adam continued to make further alterations to the manor and restored the fortifications with towers.
After the expiration of the advance in 1780, the manor was acquired by the son of Amália Limburg-Stirum, Count Kazimír Eszterházy, who financially compensated the investments of the Rajcsány family. As early as 1784, however, he left the manor to Ján Zerdahelyi. The manor was then managed by his descendants Paul and Paul's nephew Viktor Zerdahelyi. Around 1848, Viktor sold the manor to Gustav Appel, who used the manor until 1870. Gustav was the youngest son of the Hunyady family. In 1871, the manor house was bought by the businessman Alojz Haase from Austria, who probably initiated a non-serviceable reconstruction, after which the manor house acquired its current appearance.
Alojz was inherited from the manor by his daughter Mária Haas, the wife of officer Kurt Leonhardy, according to whom the manor is often referred to as Leonhard's. His descendants owned the manor until 1945. After the Second World War, the manor served as a health facility for war veterans, later as a school, cinema, municipal office and also an agricultural cooperative.
After 1989, there was a significant devastation of the building and theft of material. In 2008, the current owner restored the roof and bricked up the windows of the first floor.
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