“Some have a pastime of creating trains, some move fishing or repair outdated antique automobiles. I name myself a gambler, as a result of I gambled away all of the cash I have ever earned, no longer in a slot device, however in a Bošian mansion,” says 58-year-old businessman Ján Miškeje.
In 2007, he made up our minds to shop for the fortified Renaissance mansion of the Bossány circle of relatives within the western Slovak village of Bošany close to Topoľčian. In a couple of years, he became the dilapidated monument into a piece that the citizens of the village are pleased with as of late.
Picture N – Tomáš Pobuda
A rubbish sell off in the midst of the village
The huge grounds of the manor space are positioned a couple of tens of meters in the back of the bridge that crosses the Nitra river. Additionally it is imaginable to watch it from the within reach municipal workplace.
My first reminiscence of the mansion in Bošany is attached to the time when I used to be nonetheless in basic college. It used to be chilly and damp outdoor, the ruins of the mansion slowly emerged from beneath the grimy snow. The holes the place the home windows was once had been steadily last beneath the load of the huge mansion. The open house used to be secure best by way of haphazardly concreted bricks. The scratched partitions cracked. Deep wrinkles had been forming at the facade, like on an outdated guy’s face, that have been peeling beneath the affect of the elements.
Little hope used to be given to the mansion best by way of minor maintenance that secure it from whole disintegration.
“It used to be one giant crisis. A rubbish sell off in the midst of the village.
