Originally a water castle, partly hidden in a round renaissance-baroque chateau at the southeastern foot of the Malé Karpaty Mountains, in the town of Pezinok
The oldest core of today's castle dates back to the beginning of the 14th century and consisted of a type of water castle. The castle was surrounded by a double wall. The outer wall had a gate over which was a tower. The inner part of the circular ground plan was filled with a tower and residential buildings. It was closed by a defensive wall and its gate was entered across the bridge over the moat. Later reconstructions completely destroyed this appearance of the castle.Baroque reconstruction changed the castle into a circular closed mansion, which lost its original fortress character. Reconstruction of the former medieval water castle began after its purchase by the Šimák family and in 2019 was completed and the castle was opened to the public.
- An attempt at a rough analysis of the floor plan of the chateau: 1 - perimeter walls
- 2 - masonry probably before 1425
- 3 - late Gothic tower
- 4 - hypothetical origin
- 5 - other
- unclassifiable
The existence of the castle is reported in a report from 1271, when the castle was attacked and occupied by the troops of the Czech King Přemysl Otakar II. Another siege took place in 1295, when the Austrian duke Albrecht attacked the area. In 1334, the Pezinok branch (Bazini) split from the St. George's family. There were irregularities in the division of their property. The disputes lasted until 1429. Count Juraj and his brother Mikuláš, who were among the richest and most influential aristocratic families in Hungary, then shared the castle and the town of Pezinok. Later, when the domestic aristocratic family died out, Ferdinand I donated the Habsburg castle to Gašpar Serédy and subsequently to Eck of Salm, who, however, in In 1575 he gave an advance to the Imperial Duke Ján Krusitch. The coat of arms of this year still testifies to its construction modifications of the castle. Further work was already done by Štefan Illésházy, who married his widow Katarína Pálffy after Krusitch's death. The castle got a new, renaissance, look, residential and farm buildings were expanded and modified.
In 1618, the castle and manor fell into the hands of Štefan Pálffy. In the 17th century, the castle was abandoned and repaired in 1718 by Ján Pálffy. Another major construction intervention took place in 1844, when Count František Pálffy had a large hall set up on the floor of the output residential tower and, by removing the moat, created a precondition for extensive landscaping. In essence, the transformation of the seat into a castle was completed. In 1875, lightning burned down the buildings in the north, which had not been restored, but the rest of the buildings were renovated in the spirit of late Romanticism.
After 1936, the operation of a winegrowing cooperative and a wine cellar was located in the chateau. The chateau underwent major alterations in the years 1940-43, when the new owner - Slovenské vinohradnícke družstvo - adapted the cellars and added an administrative building in the inappropriate style on the site of the burnt-out part. The building has preserved a large historic hall, which is decorated with paintings by Pezinok painters Bártovce. Despite many reconstructions, the castle has preserved the medieval appearance of a water castle, now unique in Slovakia. Reconstruction of the former medieval water castle began after its purchase by the Šimákov family and in 2019 it was completed and the castle was opened to the public. The cellar and later the other premises were reconstructed first.
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