IMRE KOVAČ’S CASTLE – Stanišić

IMRE KOVAČ’S CASTLE – Stanišić

The castle, located on the road between Stanišić and the village of Riđica, belonged to Count Imre Kovač and is recognized as a cultural monument. In 1801, Imre Kovač purchased the Riđica estate for 61,994 forints, acquiring noble status and the predicate “of Riđica.” The castle was built by a master builder from Baja, Bišof, with forced labor (kuluk) from all the estate’s subjects, and it was completed and inhabited in 1806. The castle sits on a small elevation by the Plazović stream, surrounded by an English-style park designed by the Czech landscape architect Franz Hiter.

The castle itself is a freestanding, single-storey building in the late Baroque style. It consisted of 16 rooms, 3 large halls, and 13 auxiliary rooms. The park was once filled with century-old tree canopies, rare ornamental and noble trees, and vines. Of particular significance was the library, which housed many rare classical books and artworks, such as Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, works of Virginius from 1492, the Rákóczi Proclamation from 1703, and a letter with a coat of arms dated March 23, 1613, gifted by Austrian Emperor Matthias II to the cavalry officer Pál Kovač from Filakovo Fortress in Slovakia. The castle walls were adorned with valuable artworks and geographic maps, and the dining room displayed a lithographed panoramic painting, “Liberation of Buda from the Turks, September 12, 1686.”

Today, the preserved part of the castle is used as the local community office, and the former courtyard, where the Kovač family once enjoyed leisure under the lime trees, is now a sports field and playground.

The castle is not open to visitors.

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