Originally fortified, Renaissance-Baroque manor house with a Classicist reconstruction, built on the foundations of an older medieval fortified settlement, is located in the town of Žiar nad Hronom, in the central Pohronie in the Žiar basin
The manor is a block storey building with elevated towers, with a U-shaped floor plan and an arcaded corridor in the courtyard. Above the former moat of the fortification, a bridge leads through the portal to the vaulted vestibule. The Baroque division of the windows and the lysine framing on the towers have been preserved on the facades on the first floor. Of the romantic alterations, the end of the towers is characterized by an arched frieze and a pseudo-Gothic battlement. In the middle of the 17th century, the manor house was fortified. It was restored in 1782-94. However, more substantial changes were made in the years 1850-69 with an extension, which did not change the basic character of the multi-storey building.The town has been the owner of the manor since 2018. There are representative spaces in it, a memorial room of Š. Moyzes and the city is preparing further exhibitions as well as opening to the public.
For several centuries in front of the current manor house there have been buildings serving the Archbishopric of Esztergom. There was also the summer house of the archbishop, which is also referred to as a manor house. In 1456 the Hussite garrison lived here.
In 1605, during the uprising of Štefan Bocskaya, his troops, led by František Rédy, occupied the Holy Cross and ravaged the original manor house. This is mentioned in the report of the Royal Commissioners of 1607. After the end of the so-called The fifteen-year Habsburg-Ottoman War (1593-1608) also began with the renovation of the manor, which was carried out at his own expense by the Archbishop of Esztergom, František Forgách, who here in 1615 died suddenly.
In 1619, Bethlen's revolt broke out. The army of Gabriel Bethlen also got to the Holy Cross, where they camped until 1621. War conditions lasted until r. 1626, when, after the departure of German mercenaries sent here by the emperor against Bethlen, life began to return to normal.
The current manor house was built in 1631 by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Cardinal Peter Pázmány. The manor belonged to the Archdiocese of Esztergom in the years 1631-1776.
In 1644, the uprising of Juraj I. Rákóczi took place and the Turkish danger still lurked on the Holy Cross and its surroundings, so Archbishop Juraj Lippay had the manor house fortified with two bastions. The manor became an important fortress and in 1647 resisted the Turkish expedition.
Other war events occurred in 1664, during the Austro-Turkish War, when the imperial army under the command of General Louis de Sauches defeated the Turks at Žarnovica. The manor served as a field infirmary.
The Holy Cross has not been spared since the uprising of Imrich Thököly in 1678, when they plundered the town. An even greater disaster occurred in 1684, when Thököly's troops again plundered the Holy Cross and ravaged the archbishop's mansion, which remained abandoned for some time. The suffering of the war ceased only after the defeat of Thököly and his Ottoman allies.
In the following years, the town began to prosper and the manor gained its original appearance. Peaceful times, however, did not last long. In 1703 the troops of Francis II. Rákóczi was occupied by the Holy Cross and scattered by imperial troops. Rákóczi's crew settled here until the second half of 1706, when General Stahremberg's imperial troops, after the siege of the town and a fierce battle, defeated Rákóczi and occupied the Holy Cross. In August 1708, the manor housed the commander-in-chief of the imperial troops, Gen. Siegbert Heister. The fighting with Rákócz resulted in the almost depopulation of the Holy Cross.
March 13, 1776 Pope Piux VI. he divided the Archdiocese of Esztergom into three new dioceses - the Banská Bystrica, Spiš and Rožňava Roman Catholic dioceses. The manor thus became the property of the Banská Bystrica Roman Catholic Diocese. The first bishop of Banská Bystrica, František Berchtoldt, moved into the manor house and moved his residence here from Banská Bystrica.
During the years 1782 to 1794, repairs and reconstruction work were carried out in the manor. This period also includes the modification of the arcaded courtyard and probably also the planting of a plane tree, which grows there to this day. In r. In 1780 there was a family of a clerk, a keymaker, a gardener, a woodpecker, a goldsmith, two families of lords of manure in the manor house. Bishop František Berchtoldt of Banská Bystrica died in the manor house in 1793. His successor was Gabriel Zerdahélyi, who often stayed in the manor house in connection with the construction of the Church of the Holy Cross and founded a diocesan library in the manor house in 1805. He died in 1813.
From 1851, the Banská Bystrica bishop Štefan Moyzes lived, worked and died on July 5, 1869. The manor house served as the bishop's residence for more than 150 years. In 1939 there was a fire in the attic of the manor. In 1941, the bishop's residence was moved back to Banská Bystrica and the manor house was awarded as a gift by the Salesians. They had established the University of Theology here, but in 1950 it became the property of the state.
At the time of the SNP, the staff of the 1st Štefánik Partisan Brigade was housed in the building. In the years 1960-67 it belonged to the District National Committee in Žiar nad Hronom. From 1967 to 2005, the Secondary Vocational School of Economics and Services, Secondary School of Economics - was renamed the Business Academy from 1991. In the years 2005 - 2018, it housed the Private Business Academy. Since 2018, the manor has been the property of the city.
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