Lamberg Mansion in Bodajk, Classical mansion in Bodajk, Hungary.
The Miske Mansion, often called the Lamberg Mansion, is a free-standing, two-storey classicist building on a U-shaped plan in a ten-hectare English park. Its main facade runs 1+2+3+2+1 axes: a two-storey central risalit with four Ionic columns and a pediment rises above a carriage passage on four carved stone pillars. The garden front has arcaded window heads and carved stone brackets under an upper balcony.
The present mansion was built between 1837 and 1839 for Miske József, governor of Transylvania, after his mother-in-law Zichy Jozefa leased him the Bodajk estate. Its designer is unknown; Zádor Anna attributed it to József Hild on stylistic grounds. In 1893 the Miske heirs sold the estate to Lajos Megyeri Krausz, and in 1904 Jakab Grünfeld bought it; the family held it until its confiscation in 1942. After World War II damage, it was restored in 1962 and converted into a tourist hostel in 1964–65.
The mansion is privately owned and cannot be visited; its name is often given wrongly as Hochburg–Lamberg, after owners who never built it. The building itself is the work of the Miske family, who had it erected in 1837–1839, and locals still call it the Miske-kastély.
The mansion is privately owned and not open to visitors, so there are no guided tours of the interior or the 10-hectare English park. The building can be viewed from the public street in Bodajk; the park and courtyards are closed off.
The building was converted into a tourist hostel in 1964–1965 by the National Inspectorate of Monuments, and it served travellers until the early 1990s. After 1945 the damaged interior had been looted down to the walls, and a new roof was only built in 1962.
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