Abaffy mansion-second Manor house

Abaffy mansion in the village Horná Lehota in the Žilina region is a baroque building from the 18th century, which has undergone later classical adjustments. The monument has an architectural solution with a central tract and oval risk.

Municipality of Horná The deadline is first mentioned in writing in 1420 as an accessory to Orava Castle. At the place of today's mansion stood in the 16th century the curia of the first member of the family established in Orava, Ján Abaffy. He entered the services of František Thurza first at the Bytčianská estate and later at the estate of Orava. Abaffy settled permanently in the seat of Orava and received from Thurzo's son Juraj in 1587 for the faithful service of the village Horná Lehota, in which he built a Renaissance curio. After John died, his four sons took care of her together, trying to build on his father's career achievements. In the second half of the 18th century probably Orava podžupan František Abaffy had the heat rebuilt into a baroque manor house and settled in it. Later he moved to the mansion in Mokradi and reserved the seat in Upper Lehota for his second-born son Vendelín. Vendelín had the object modified in a classicistic style. The manor house remained uninhabited until about the middle of the 19th century and after 1945 it was converted into flats. The area records the Monument Office of the Slovak Republic under the number of ÚZPF 220 and consists of one object marked 220/1, while architectural-historic research took place in 2015.

Podpivničený mansion covered with hipped roofs has a central tract with oval risk, which follows two diagonally designed wings. The main entrance facade and a pair of fanically opening diagonal wings form an honorable courtyard. In its central entrance section, highlighted by a slightly protruding polygon in front of the older Renaissance building, focuses the artistic decoration of the whole object. The eastern part of the manor house comes from the end of the 16th century. In the 18th century, the object was adjusted in Baroque style and the side wings are the result of a classicistic adjustment from the first half of the 19th century. They are designed simply and cut their window openings on both floors with indicated color shambles in plasters. The area of the manor house formed in 1873 majer, mill and several other brick and wooden objects. There is also a classicistic economic building from the beginning of the 19th century, under socialism also converted into flats.

The first owners were John Abaffy, after whom his four sons took care of the estate. Juraj Abaffy became the castelan of the Orava Castle with Juraj Thurza and during the uprising Štefan Bocskaya the noble residence defended against the rebels. Later, the manor house belonged to the Orava podžupan František Abaffy and his son Vendelien, who was in 1822 under thežupan Orava seat, the adjacent table court and imperial-royal court counselor. Vendelín Abaffy died after a short illness in the mansion.

According to the description from 1707 the curio consisted of brick and wooden structures and was surrounded by garden and orchard. After his death, the body remains of Vendelin Abaffy were stored in the family crypt of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Upper Lehota.

The status of the historical residence is not good and the manor house still serves as an apartment building, while during the 20th century only a series of repairs and maintenance took place. The manor house is located on the upper end of the village Horná Lehota south of the main road and is freely accessible from the exterior.