The renaissance manor house of the Ghyczy family, built on the site of a medieval castle, is located in the village of Nové Sady, lying on both sides of the Radošinka stream in the northwestern part of the Nitra Region
From the beginning of the 17th century, when the mansion was built on the basis of a medieval castle, the vaulting system and continuous areas of Renaissance plaster were preserved. The floor was rebuilt and minor reconstructions were carried out, within which the facade was also restored.The mansion is a rectangular two-storey non-cellared building with a simple ground plan and two corner semicircular bastions. The basic layout of the building consists of a constructional and layout two-wing in the north-south direction. On the facade, facing the already defunct park, there is a central bay with a triangular gable from the Renaissance reconstruction. In front of it is a balcony with a forged lattice, supported by a console on two pairs of Tuscan columns.In December 2010, its reconstruction began, financed from the Regional Operational Program, in order to improve the quality of services of the unused cultural monument through its reconstruction and procurement of equipment. At present there is a museum.
Originally a Renaissance manor house, it was built on the foundations of a medieval castle, mentioned in 1550. It was probably a late medieval three-room building. This medieval building belonged to a member of the Assa family from Kürth (now Nové Sady). The Assa family settled in and around the village of Kürth during the 13th century. At the end of the 1930s, the family died out by Ladislav Assom. During his life he bequeathed his villages Assa Kürth and Výčapky to Matúš Hencz. The loyalty of Matúš Hencz and Jozef (I.) Ghyczy († 1561) to King Ferdinand I. brought them confirmation of the joint gain of the property of the extinct family of Assa.
The Ghyczy family came from the village of Gic, which was located in the Veszprém capital in what is now Hungary, where it has had its property since the 13th century. Of the members of this family, only Jozef (I.) Ghyczy got to the Nitra capital, who acquired the local property thanks to a marriage to Žofia Henczová, the heiress of property in Assa Kürthe. Jozef (I.) Ghyczy thus became the founder of the Nitra branch of the family. Joseph was the builder of the fortified manor. In 1550 he received permission to build the building from King Ferdinand I. In addition to permission to build a fortified mansion, the Ghyczy family also received a significant royal privilege - the right to sword, the right to prosecute serious crimes by death, which the family applied until its abolition in 1848. diplomat Jozef Ghyczy ensured that the village became the center of the manor, from which the landowning family administered 15 serf villages.
After the death of Jozef (I.) Ghyczy, riots broke out between his two sons - Štefan (II.) Ghyczy from his first marriage and Juraj (II.) Ghyczy from his second marriage to Dorota Győrödyová. In these mutual disputes, the fortified manor house in Assa Kürthe also served as a defense, and therefore in 1567 King Maximilian I ordered that the manor house be demolished, which, however, never took place.
In the first half of the 19th century, a significant reconstruction took place, which was undertaken by Andrej (III.) Ghyczy. He rebuilt the half-dilapidated manor house into a two-storey tower manor house. The last survivors of the family were Imrich († 1910) and Mária († 1922) Ghyczyovci. At the end of the first half of the 20th century, the manor house was part of the estate of the Szmrecsányi family. In modern history, the manor house was used as a school, hospitality, warehouse, but also a dining room for a primary school. Reconstruction carried out in the years 2010 to 2012 brought the manor to its current state, which defined the purpose of using the manor for the museum.
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