Schloss Esterhazy (Galanta)

Nowadays the dilapidated chateau is being reconstructed by volunteers from the town sponsored by the deputy of mayor.

Only marble fireplaces have been preserved from this reconstruction It was given its present neo-Gothic appearance inspired by English Gothic in 1861.The latest and most radical modernisation was in 1861 based on romantic English Gothic style [1][2] The chateau is a monumental building with a U-shaped ground plan.

Both of the side wings have escalated frontage, each level is decorated with profiled quatrafoil and a little roof over it.

Since the side wings were originally used as stable there are only three small front windows in a row, centrally placed on the wall.

The chateau does not have a whole entablature, only the cornice and an arc-shaped frieze with added blind circle windows.

They have the same shape (narrow with a pointed arc on the top) but they differ in size and a number in each storey.

A peculiar feature of the tower are small round windows above the third floor, they probably represent a reference to the decor of the frieze.

Usually, they are rib vaults supported by funnel-like corbe s. An eye-catching element is the handrail of the main staircase.

The building is in a bad condition caused by poor care of the town council during communism and after the Velvet revolution.