Rusovce mansion
The Charles Castle (Slovak: Rusovský kaštieľ ) is a castle in Slovakia. It is located in Rusovce (Hungarian: Oroszvár, German: Karl Castle), a district of Bratislava on the right bank of the Danube near the border with Austria.
History
The Country Estate Oroszvár was purchased in 1646 by Count Zichy Stefan as a country residence, his family more than 200 years of ownership remained. The present castle was built from 1841 to 1846 for the Count Emanuel Zichy Ferrari in Tudor style, the prevailing Gothic Revival in England, built (walls: Arch Franz Beer, Vienna); a reverence of the client to his English wife. The by an extensive English landscape garden-surrounded building ( the Gutsfläche comprises 24 square kilometers on both sides of the Danube ) replaced an earlier building erected in 1521 at the same location. As the possession of the castle Zichys Karlburg was often the place of birth and marriage of members of the aristocracy.
1872 sold Zichy family to the entrepreneur Graf Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck, who until 1890 a nationally renowned stud farm for racehorses operation here and then sold the property. ( Rector from 1917) and his wife Stephanie of Belgium, the widow of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria - Hungary purchased in 1906 the estate was by Count Elemér Lónyay. The two were married in 1900.
By 1945, Charles Castle castle was then the residence of the couple. Bertha von Suttner attended the two there at Christmas 1906 and wrote about it in the Vienna newspaper Neue Freie Presse, which Karl Kraus in his magazine " torch " led to süffisanter polemics. By 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, was with his wife like a guest here ( because both couples were married not befitting according to the rules of the imperial family ).
The 1946 late in Budapest prince inherited the castle and park the Benedictine Order, which the couple had 1945 houses in his flight from the Red Army at the end of World War II in his Pannonhalma Abbey. The Castle Library Oroszvár ( 3,300 titles, 4,500 volumes) is to this day in Pannonhalma. By 1947, belonged to Charles Castle, Hungarian Oroszvár to Hungary, then it was Czechoslovakia slammed (see: Bratislava bridgehead ). The property was confiscated by the communist government in 1948.
Today's state
Current owner since 1995, the Slovak government, which wanted to use for representation purposes, the castle and wants. 1995-2000, the Slovak government has invested around 30 million euros to restore, another 50 million are planned. The castle is not open to the public. The Benedictine want 2009 to the European Court, after the Slovak Constitutional Court has rejected the return to the Order.