Pallavicini Mansion, Ópusztaszer

The Pallavicini Mansion, Ópusztaszer is located in present-day Ópusztaszer (6767 Ópusztaszer, Tóhajlat 133), in the former Sövényháza, in Csongrád-Csanád county.

The Pallavicini family did not use it as a principal mansion, but rather as a hunting lodge, serving as the venue for festivities and receptions. The Pallavicini family acquired the estate by purchase in 1803. The mansion was built at the end of the 1800s in place of the mansion destroyed in the great flood of 1879; the works were completed in 1910.

The building consists of a basement or cellar part, a ground floor and an upper floor. The carriage ramp customary at the time is also part of the mansion, but this cannot be seen today, since under the earlier system the public road runs not in front of the mansion but behind it, so this hidden value also remains hidden for many. In the 1980s a modern four-storey building was attached to the mansion, whose entrance already faces the public road, so the two buildings have nothing in common either in style or in position.

After the Second World War it was completely plundered. From the 1960s onwards the mansion has functioned as a psychiatric home, as it still does today. Margrave Károly Pallavicini, who died in 1999, accepted that he could not get it back from the state.

In the garden belonging to the building there are still trees from the period of the manorial estate, which are the most visible to outsiders, and they also enjoy protection.

Machine-translated from “Pallavicini-kastély (Ópusztaszer)” on the Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pallavicini Mansion, Ópusztaszer ranks #7,775 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #107 of the 135 mapped in Hungary. The nearest day-trip guide is Kecskemét, 55 km away. See how Hungary compares in the castle statistics.

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