Originally a Renaissance manor house, built on older foundations, stands on a hill in the central part of the village of Zolná, about 8 km east of Zvolen, of which it is now an administrative part.
The manor house is a three-aisled two-storey block building with a rectangular floor plan, originally built in the Renaissance style, modified in the Baroque style in 1760 and later modified in the 19th century. The manor has a new roof and basic reconstruction work has been carried out on it, but the reconstruction has not been completed and the building is not in a good shape.The corridor is segmentally vaulted and a straight staircase leads from it to the first floor. The rooms of the manor are vaulted with Prussian vaults. The building has smooth facades, in some places under the plaster was still preserved lysine framing.
- Hypothetical reconstruction of the developmental phases of the manor house
- processed on the basis of the research by Križanova.Source: zolna-podpolanie.blogspot.com
The oldest known mention of Zolná is the report on permission to build a fortified church, issued by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Tomáš, in 1311, and thus complied with the request of two brothers, Bicher and Zubrat.
This report and the findings of the Gothic portals or the remains of the archway also point to the original Gothic foundations of the manor in the 14th century. The Gothic block residential fortified building most likely stood on a hill above the village. A Renaissance manor house was later built on the foundations of this building.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the territory of Zolná was owned by the Stekh de Zolna family. Peter, Ondrej and Štefan de Zolna also belonged to this family. During this period, the Zolnay family carried out more extensive alterations and additions in the Renaissance style, following the example of the Zvolen chateau, when the manor house acquired its present-day rectangular shape.
During the Turkish invasions in 1578 and 1599, the manor house was damaged several times. No written data has been preserved from this period about the owners of the manor or the village of Zolná. Other information appears only in 1662, when Štefan Soós bought Zolná from Ladislav Csáky.
Since 1723, the village and the manor house are again owned by the Zolnay family. Štefan Zolnay, together with Klára Zmeškal, carried out a baroque reconstruction of the manor house in 1760. In 1800 another reconstruction and maintenance took place.
Later, in 1870, the manor was acquired by Archduke Friedrich of Habsburg and came into the possession of the Vígľaš estate.
In 1945, the manor house burned down and after its subsequent repair, the original mansard roof was replaced by a saddle roof. The manor then became the property of the state and the building was later acquired by the families of Bešeňovci, Bibovci and Koreňovci, from whom it was bought back by the state in 1989 on behalf of the Ľ. Štúr library in Zvolen. In the 1990s, three stone slabs disappeared irretrievably from the manor, two of them with family coats of arms and the dates of the manor house's reconstructions.
Archaeological research took place in 2004 and since 2006 the manor has a new mansard roof. At the end of 2021, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, additional architectural and historical research was carried out on the manor house.
The manor is in private hands and except the roof, is in a desolate condition.
There are no myths available.
The manor is not open to the public, is in private hands