A small Renaissance manor house in the village of Oponice lies in the eastern part of the Nitra loess hills on the left-hand floodplain of the Nitra river.
The Renaissance manor house is a two-storey building with an L-type floor plan and a corner semicircular tower. The building has smooth facades, rectangular windows. The tower has pseudo-Gothic windows with a broken shutter. The facades are smooth, divided only by rectangular windows, on the tower are pseudo-Gothic windows with a broken shutter. Access to the building is from the courtyard through the entrance portal.In the ground floor rooms there are Prussian and barrel vaults, on the first floor there are flat ceilings with Empire murals of castles and chateaux. Pseudo-Gothic murals with mythological scenes in the former chapel. The exhibition includes more than 2,500 exhibits related to the Apponyi family.
The manor house is a Renaissance building and dates from 16-17. century. It served as the administrative center of the economic territory. The Marcibányi and Bartakovič family was the oldest owners of this Renaissance, probably fortified mansion. In the 18th century, the manor house was remodeled in the Baroque style, later, in the 19th century, Empire and Neo-Gothic alterations took place.
In the 19th century, the manor house was acquired by the Apponyi family, who did not live here, but it was used only by the administrators of the estate until 1924. The last owner was Count Henrich Apponyi, who had great tax lengths. During the First Czechoslovak Republic, a gendarmerie (gendarme) station was set up on the ground floor, led by Jozef Štefánik. The first floor was used by general practitioner Jozef Šeley as his private surgery and private apartment. During socialism, a kindergarten and other facilities were located here.
After World War II, the building began to decay, but in the mid-1970s it was reconstructed.
The manor house of the Apponyi Museum was established in 1993, which maps the traces of the Apponyi noble family.
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