Príspevok k stavebným dejinám Smolenického kaštieľa
Contribution to the construction history of the manor house in Smolenice

Summary/Abstract: This study reflects construction development of a baroque manor house in Smolenice from the first half of the 18th century which was built by Count Georg Leopold Erdődy (1680 – 1759) and until the year 1945 was in property of the family Pálffy ab Erdőd. The building was demolished in 2001 without architectural and art historical research. In 2008 rescue archeological research took place on part of the site where the manor house used to stand. This research was carried out by Slovak National Museum-Archeological Museum in Bratislava and it revealed some aspects from the history of the manor house in Smolenice. Efforts for more accurate interpretation of the archeological findings were an impulse to carry out detailed historical research. Unique source to the history of the manor house was a collection of visual sources (photography, drawings and watercolor) from the collection of Slovak National Museum-Museum Červený Kameň in Častá which capture the original look of the building of the manor house. The authors, historian and archaeologist, present construction development of the manor house in Smolenice that they were able to reconstruct on the grounds of the archaeological findings and knowledge collected through the archaeological research.

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