Zárda building in Csicson
Building, structure
One of the most beautiful buildings in the village, the convent, was built in 1889 by Countess Adél Kálnoky, widow of Count János Waldstein and wife of the French Duke of Sabran-Pontevès. It housed a convent named after Saint John of Nepomuk (his stone statue stands in its front garden), a girls' school and a kindergarten, where the kind sisters of the Order of Saint Vincent (hatted sisters, after their characteristic white hats) were brought. In addition to teaching, the kind sisters also supervised the "Mary Daughters", the "rosary women". Regardless of denomination, they cared for the sick, taught young girls needlework and home economics. Their last leading sister, Mária Johanna Minauf (1856–1932), is buried in the cemetery in Csíssó. In the early 1930s, other sisters took their place, the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of Bratislava. Data from 1939: director Mária Veneranda Diósy, teacher Erzsébet Király, Julianna Zimmermann, kindergarten teacher. The sisters had to leave Csicsó in the early 1950s. From 1950 until the construction of the new school, the convent housed the 1st and 2nd grades of the elementary school, as well as the kindergarten. ; The single-storey rectangular building has a nine-axis facade, the three-axis central entrance projection ends with a pointed arch. There is a memorial plaque on its gable, on which, in now illegible writing, the date of the school's construction and consecration was announced: August 17, 1890. In one of the classrooms there was another memorial plaque, which was dedicated in memory of the princely couple's son who died early. The building was roughly renovated in the early 1980s, when a kindergarten kitchen and dining room were added, and it was stripped of almost all decorative elements and plastered gray. In 1983, the elementary school children were moved to the new school, and in the 2000s, the kindergarten as well. The convent building began to deteriorate rapidly. Count Alajos Kálnoky had some conservation work done on it, but for unknown reasons the renovation was stopped.
The building burned down in August 2025
Local historian Amália Nagy's website