Grassalkovich Castle
Building, structure
Amadé Lénárt had a hunting lodge built on the site in 1640. He transformed the nearby forest into a beautiful Baroque castle park. In the mid-18th century, the Ivanka manor was purchased by Count Antal Grassalkovich, who had a Baroque castle built in its place in 1763. The Grassalkovichs owned the manor until 1841, when in 1842 it was purchased by the Serbian king Mihály Obrenovics (who owned it until 1858), through whose wife, Countess Júlia Hunyady, née Hunyady, it came into the hands of the Hunyadys. Julia Hunyady's second husband, Prince Károly Arenberg, had the castle remodeled in the neo-Gothic style. They also built the exemplary kindergarten here. The tomb of the Count Hunyady family is located in the Catholic church built by Prince Antal Grassalkovich in 1772. The Jesuits bought the building in 1943, but they had to leave the castle in the late 1940s. Currently, the neo-Gothic castle in Bratislava is once again the property of the Jesuit order.