Matzenau Castle
The Matzenau Castle ( Slovenian : Matzenauerjev dvorec; Hungarian : Matzenauer-kastély) is a building erected in the first half of the nineteenth century and one of the rare examples of classical architecture in Slovenia . The ruinous mansion stands in the middle of an overgrown park on the outskirts of the village Prosenjakovci (ung. Pártosfalva), in the municipality of Moravske Toplice in Slovenia.
history
19th century
The legend puts the construction of the palace in the Napoleonic era . According to popular tradition, he himself stayed here and stayed in the building. In truth, the exact time of the edification is in the dark. The circumstances that led to the construction of the manor house and the builder (s) are also unknown.
The building was first mentioned in a document in 1866, when the widow of Karl Freiherr von Simbschen, who died in 1865 , Olga, transferred the estate to her father, Prince Joseph von Wrede , and the change of ownership was documented in the newly introduced land register .
After the 71-year-old Joseph von Wrede died on December 26, 1871 in Prosnyákfa, which was the name of the place at that time, the heirs sold the manor house and the property belonging to it to Vilmos Boschan in 1873. In 1876 the property was then transferred to Boschan's wife. Three years later, in 1879 , Josef Lenner , who came from Budapest , bought the estate and apparently soon got into financial difficulties with him, because as early as 1880 the entire property was auctioned by a Budapest bank and sold to Messrs. Henrik, Gyula and Vilmos Pick.
Ferenc Graf von Egger, who acquired the estate in 1890, sold it to Dionys Julius Franz Freiherr Craigher von Jachelutta in 1893. Dionys, the only son of the poet and diplomat Jacob Nicolaus Craigher de Jachelutta , was married to Amalie Freiin von Flotow since 1890 . It is not known whether the young family lived here and whether their daughter Carla, who was born on June 15, 1894, spent her childhood on the estate. In 1900 the Craighers sold the estate to Karl Friedrich Franz Matzenauer Count von Matzenau.
20th century
The 49-year-old diplomat, Matzenauer, moved with his wife and children, two of whom were from his first marriage, from Nikolsburg in South Moravia (now Mikulov , Czech Republic ) to Pártosfalva. From then on, the von Matzenau family lived in the manor house and ran the associated estate.
After the end of the First World War , the eventful struggle for the state affiliation of the Übermurgebiet / Prekmurje and the borders began. From August 12, 1919, with the approval of the Paris Peace Conference , South Slav soldiers occupied the Übermur area for the Kingdom of SHS . The course of the new borders was determined by an international border drawing commission and anchored in the Trianon Treaty on June 4, 1920 . When establishing the border with Hungary , in the area south of the small Kerka brook (Mala Krka / Kis Kerka) around Pártosfalva and Magyarszombatfa, Matzenauer also worked as an adviser to the border commission. Although the Slovene population of the village Prosenjakovci, as the place was henceforth called, only made up about 11% in the census in 1910, the village and the entire property of the Matzenauer family with about 150 hectares of land was attached to the SHS state .
Karl von Matzenau, who had acquired the country estate with several loans at the time, had to keep the property extremely economical in the post-war period. The Matzenauer family's property remained unaffected by the agrarian reform law passed by the Belgrade government in May 1922 , which provided for the expropriation of large estates with more than 75 hectares of arable land and a total area of more than 200 hectares in return for compensation.
Karl von Matzenau died on February 5, 1932. Then his widow Maria Theresia, née Krischker, took over the estate and managed it until her death in 1938. Now the estate was bequeathed to their two descendants, 34-year-old son Emerich von Matzenau and his 37-year-old sister Maria. After the occupation of the Übermur area by Hungary on April 16, 1941, the Matzenau estate again belonged to the Hungarian Vas county and Prosenjakovci became Pártosfalva again. During this period, the Matzenauers expanded the estate. They modernized and added to the farm buildings, and they also succeeded in expanding their property to around 220 hectares by purchasing another 70 hectares.
Tank units of the 3rd Ukrainian Front of the Red Army pushed up the Zala valley in the last days of March 1945, reaching the eastern area of the Goričko . They immediately confiscated the castle building and used the rooms as a field hospital until the end of the war . At that time, the members of the Matzenauer family had to leave their property in a hurry. After the Red Army withdrew, Tito's partisans took over the mansion. This was followed by the Yugoslav People's Army , which stationed border guards here. During this time the castle was completely looted and the members of the Matzenauer family lost all of their personal belongings.
Due to the federal law of August 23, 1945 on agrarian reform, which was adopted by the Presidium of the Slovenian People's Liberation Council (SNOS) on December 17, 1945, the members of the Matzenauer family lost all of their property, including the castle and farm buildings, to the " Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia “(FLRJ). The agricultural land in the Prosenjakovci area was later merged and operated by a state agricultural cooperative (Kmetijska zadruga, KZ). The castle building was also given to this cooperative for use. All kinds of people were then quartered in the building, who even used some of the rooms as chicken and rabbit pens, so that the building was completely run down over the years.
In 1952, the unmarried 47-year-old Emerich Matzenauer, the last male descendant of the clan, tragically died. His sister Maria, who was married and had four children, died at the age of 86, the last of the Matzenauer family, in 1987. Due to the law on denationalization that the Republic of Slovenia passed on November 20, 1991 and adopted on November 25, 1991, their descendants received April 1997 was confirmed by the Slovenian Constitutional Court, the entire confiscated property back.
Alliance coat of arms
On the projecting central projection of the building, between the balcony portal and the collapsed gable triangle , an alliance or family coat of arms has survived almost undamaged. The two coats of arms were wrongly colored in the past, presumably during a building renovation, but can be clearly assigned by their shield contents.
The optically left coat of arms, with the baron crown , belongs to the von Simbschen family and is described by Kneschke:
“Shield quartered with silver central shields and in the same on a green three-hill an ostrich holding a horseshoe in its beak. 1 in blue three golden stars placed obliquely to the left; 2 and 3 in silver three red posts and 4 in blue four, 2 and 2, gold stars. "
The optically right coat of arms, with the prince's hat , belongs to the von Wrede family and is described in the German nobility role:
“In gold, a green laurel wreath in which five red roses (1, 2, 2) are woven; in the upper right corner of the shield is a blue crossing, in which an upright sword with a golden hilt. Motto: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA ( In bravery for the fatherland ). "
The reason for the creation of this alliance coat of arms was the marriage of the 43-year-old Carl Freiherr von Simbschen to the 23-year-old Olga Fürstin von Wrede on May 1, 1862 in Graz .
literature
- M. Slavic: De la Statistique du Prekmurje , Paris 1919, in: Matija Slavič: Naše Prekmurje, zbrane razprave in članki , Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1999, ISBN 86-7195-316-5 .
- Bela Sever: Pomurje from A to Z, Handbook for Travelers and Business People, Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1991, ISBN 86-7195-061-1 .
- Franc Kuzmič: Rusevina v Prosenjakovcih , in: Kulturna obzorja, Gradovi v Pomurju , Vestnik, Murska Sobota, edition: August 1, 1985.
- Jože Sraka: Prekmurci in Prekmurje , Melinci, Rim, Chicago, 1984.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, Ed .: Deutsches Adels-Lexikon , Leipzig, 1868–1870.
- Collected work , o. A .: Illustrated German aristocratic roll of the nineteenth century , Leipzig, 1858–1860.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Slavic: De la Statistique ..., p. 10, numbers 1910: approx. 380, German 10, slo. 48.
- ↑ Kneschke, Adelslexikon, Vol. 8, p. 497, Simbschen, Freiherren.
- ↑ Collective work, Adelsrolle, Second Delivery, p. 109, Die Fürsten Wrede.
Coordinates: 46 ° 44 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 53.4 ″ E