Hrušov - Slovakia

Castles

Hrušov
Locality type: Castles
Continent: Europe
State (country): Slovakia
Place: Ve'lký Krtíš district

Nerby the river: Hron

In north direction distance, a couple of kilometres from the town of Topolčianky, in Tribeč Mountain Range in West Slovakia, there is to be found romantic ruins of Hrušov Castle. Your way to Hrušov Castle starts nearby bus stop at road Topolčianky-Skýcov. Here, you find tourist sign-post, followed with red marked tourist trail. This leads into forest, and later you reach a way, directing to gamekeeper´s house. The visitors who arrive with their car, they can go, along narrow asphalted road up to this building and leave their car to be parked here. Red marked tourist trail leads you, following this way at forest border up to the meadow nearby the castle.

Here, you find memorable stone of President T.G.Masaryk (he stayed very often in near community of Topolčianky and walked around this countryside). Other sign-post here shows you next way to the castle. You follow green marked tourist path and reach shortly its walls. However, the castle is a ruin since beginning of 18th century. At present, there are effected here reconstruction works. The ruin, placed on rocky headland, is arising majestically over surrounding countryside, so it is outstanding viewing point. Round view (circular view) enables to see Tribeč Mountain Range, located in west direction, in north then the community of Skýcov, in east, undulated countryside nearby the community of Jedlové Kostolany, and in south horizon is filled up with Pohronsky Inovec, and moreover, in backround, you can see cooling towers of Mochovce nuclear electric power station.

Castle nucleus of Hrušov is limited (bordered) with massive fortifications, on ground-plan of  approximate oval formation. From internal part, there is constructed a palace to rampart, and smaller building with loophole aimed at the entrance. All this limits, with rampart-rest, a small courtyard. At its south part, there is additionally constructed a tower to this formation. Inhabitated spaces of the castle were extended by means of rectangular palaces, built to castle-nucleus from its outer part on east and west. The castle is surrounded on three parts with barbicans and prismatic bastion, the task of which was a protection entrance gate, together with gun-bastion in a formation of horseshoe and administrative and inhabited buildings. The rampart of the second barbican in its southwest part was preserved in a torso only. Below the castle, there are probably to be found extensive cellars, where there are hidden (according legends) treasuries.

 Even also castle-environments are quite interesting, and it is worth to visit it. This is, first of all, the community of Topolčianky, located a couple of kilometres in south direction of the castle. So, its pride is vast English park, where there is situated picturesque chateau of classic style, forming in such way south wing of historical object of older castle. Originally, there was located here water castle of Gothic style, later Renaissance citadela (which played, within 16th-18th centuries, its important role in fight against Turkish troops). So, at the beginning of 19th century, it was (according to instructions of the owner, Jan Keglevich) the south wing of Renaissance chateau demolished, and on its place, there was built house-part in classical style, taken as the best and most beautiful and pure expression of Classical style in Slovakia. At that time period, the chateau served as summer seat of Habsburg Family. After 1st World War, the castle was declared as summer holiday relax of President of Czechoslovakia. During that period, the castle undergone its last bigger building arrangements of its three Renaissance wings. First President of Czechoslovakia, T.G.Masaryk, had great affection for Topolčianky Chateau, and stayed here very often. He went here not only for relax but he also worked here. Later, President Antonín Zápotocký was the last one of politics, who stayed here in 1951. What is the situateion at present?

There was established a museum from Classical wing of the chateau. The visitors can admire rich library (this belongs to very few numbers of preserved libraries in Slovakia), containing more than 14 thousand of books. The attention is to be paid to interior rooms equipment, including rare furniture collection of 16th-19th centuries, with marvellous picture decoration, and collections of ceramics and china (porcellain). At present, three wings of chateau serve as a hotel, where there are available for guests originally equipped appartements. Hunting castle, located nearby, beautiful park with rare wooden trees from all over the world, as well as National Stud-Farm  present Topločianky as very popular summer resort and relax centre. An attractive show offers also not far distant aurochs preserve. Here, on a surface of 30 ha approx. several pieces of aurochs cattle are bred. All farms in neighbourhood breed nobleminded horse.

Text: Denisa Arvajová

Photo: google earth

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