WENCKHEIM-KASTÉLY

There is nothing in the indicated place, a wooded forest and a pheasant colony

We didn't find it .. probably it was demolished if not then ??‍♀️ which was interesting that a sight was fattened at 2 addresses on Google maps .. we tried in both places .. we didn't find it .. in one place debris and one in the picture of other visitors visible concrete cylinder (maybe it's from there, that's not for sure) .. it was a big disappointment .. but we had a good time outdoors and in the company of the wild.

It hides among the trees. The big castle only has traces of the pool, and it is a small castle, later a manager's apartment that still stands. According to the resident, someone recently knocked out the walls because he wanted to keep animals there. "The Harruckern family became extinct by the end of the 1700s, the Csorvás steppe (then still called) was inherited by the Wenckheim family. . In Csorvás, in the 1940s, there were four more Wenckheim castles. Petőfi pusztai kiskastély ("kiskastély") was built in 1880, it was the earliest of the castles in Csorvás. Until the completion of the Great Major Wenckheim Castle, this building was used for the Count's apartment. It later became a boarding house. The small castle is surrounded by a 10-hectare park with several protected tree species. The 1,600-acre part of Count Sándor Wenckheim's estate in Csorvás, and its center, were called the Great Major. It was built here between 1924-28 - probably an earlier manorial building, the so-called neo-baroque castle reminiscent of the mass composition of the Gács castle in the vicinity of the "small castle" according to the plans of the Viennese architect Viktor Siedek. The new castle was built with a North-South longitudinal axis, in its transverse axis it formed an architectural composition with the existing 15-room small castle. also and large - flat area between the castle. Here, the map indicates a water basin with baroque engravings, which can be seen at the foot of the terrace in front of the eastern façade of the castle. These pools were made of reinforced concrete, and the fully basement, one-storey new castle was also completely built externally with the most modern building materials and structural solutions. To the north of the castle, in the garden, there is another water pool, next to it a swimming pool and bath pavilion with a surface of 250 square meters and a depth of 150 cm, as well as a tennis court. As a pandant of this, in the axis of the entrance gate, behind the turn of the access road, another baroque pool of water stretched, surrounded by a stone wall. The exterior of the Great Major Wenckheim Castle was completely completed by the end of 1944, but its interior design was completely underdeveloped (partition walls, floor). The economic crisis of the 1930s, the generous and wasteful lifestyle of Count Sándor, and American travel devoured inherited wealth, so in return for his debts, in 1932, Sánduel Mándy pledged the estate to a banker. Count Alexander was left with only a fenced area around the castle, and in 1944 he still saw the first Russian soldiers who broke into the empty and half-finished castle to plunder. In 1945, the Csorvás Maya was held in the castle, but there was a dance party in the riverbed in front of it, because there was no floor in the castle on which to dance! It was dismantled after 1945 and as a result it later became completely ruined, which is why it was blown up in 1977. So the castle is almost completely gone. "