Alsókorompa, Brunszvik Manor
Dolná Krupá, Kaštieľ v Dolnej Krupej
Alsókorompa, Brunszvik Manor
Hungarian:
Alsókorompa
Slovak:
Dolná Krupá
Condition:
Needs renovation
Function:
Museum
Address:
Dolná Krupá, 91965
Settlement:
Alsókorompa, Dolná Krupá
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
Country:
Slovakia
District:
Trnavský kraj
GPS coordinates:
48.484479, 17.546413
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The castle can be visited and it also has an exhibition of the history of music and musical instruments. Beethoven gave concerts in its music room several times, and he composed the Moonlight Sonata in the manor. The manor has an English garden of 17 hectares, and there is a Beethoven exhibition in its Rococo pavilion.
History
1749-1756
Brunszvik Antal built a manor house in Baroque style on the site of an older building. His father, Brunszvik Mihály II, acquired the estate of Korompa by marrying Vitális Mária.
1792 - 1796
Brunszvik József reconstructed and expanded the manor in Baroque-Classicist style according to the plans of the architect Johann Josef Talherr. Theater, gardener's house, orangery, spa house, and gazebos were added to the manor.
1813-1822
Brunszvik József rebuilt the manor in a modern Classicist style and a more than 100-hectare English park was also established around the manor.
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