Park - Voderady

Name: Park - Voderady
Address: Voderady
Telephone: +421 915 725 840

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The park behind the manor house was originally built in the French style. In 1794, Count František Ziči commissioned the landscape architect and agronomist Bernhard Petri to rebuild it into the English park style. This 24-year-old native of Zweibrϋcken, Germany, created a real masterpiece behind the Zičiov manor house, which was eroded throughout Europe at the time.

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Bernhard Petri wrote an article about the successful reconstruction of the park, which was published in 1797 in the Leipzig anthology Taschenbuch für Garten - Freunde. In honor of this reconstruction, Count František Ziči had a 12-meter obelisk with a Latin text built in the park: NATURAM PINXISSE PARUM EST, NISI PICTA VENUSTE RIDEAT, ET LAETOS OSTENDAT SPLENDIDA VULTUS. VETUSTAS AVORUM SEDES SUO RESTITUIT NITORI 1794. CFZ

The park in Voderady was the first natural-sentimental park in the territory of today's Slovakia. Experts call the natural-sentimental park a landscaping of park areas from the period when Enlightenment thinking influenced all branches of human activity (the last third of the 18th century). Stiff geometric lines were replaced by free landscaping. In Slovakia, the most popular type became the classicist sentimental park of the last third of the 18th century, which was created by combining a reduced French garden with English landscaping, where the first foreign woody plants appeared. Although the creators tried to adapt to a return to nature, they could not give up the usual "baroque" ornaments, so they left flower beds and representative views of French parks around the manor.

Source: Voderady info

Deciduous and coniferous trees grew on the two islands of the pond. One of the islets was decorated in the Japanese way with a light viewing pavilion. An oriental-style bridge led from the shore. Between the barred crosses, the hermit's house resembled a hermit's poor interior from inside, but another door led to a beautifully furnished room with fine furniture and Chinese porcelain and all the comforts for a discerning guest. Not far from here, behind a small stream with a narrow brick bridge, the ruins of an old castle towered. The road to it led over a brick and drawbridge, which spanned the moat. The back of the castle was furnished for the housing of the hunter.

The park included rare trees such as Japanese saphora, catalpa, ginko - a sacred tree of Buddhists (one of the gynecology was 207 cm in the trunk circumference and belonged to the primate among all individuals of this species in Slovakia), tulip lily, elm, gymnokladus, vejmutovka, Canadian walnut, maple, sycamore, silver spruce and much more. However, the greatest attention of visitors has always been attracted by centuries-old oaks scattered in the forest behind the park. They once provided shelter to hundreds of raven families. The largest of them is Jánošíkov dub. At breast height, he has a circumference of 527 cm.

The park was once admired not only by visitors but also by experts. It was the most famous and admired park in the entire capital of Bratislava. Thanks to him, Voderady also got into the manuals and encyclopedias of the time.

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Andrej Kubina stated that the ancient Romans had their Tusculum, the Viennese were looking for baptism in Hietzing and the people of Trnava had their Voderady.

In times of greatest glory, dozens of carriages and chariots came to Voderady on Easter and Pentecost Monday. Almost fifty of them were counted on April 6, 1874. “The gigantic garden was just crowded with cheerful excursionists, who walked with the sums in larger and smaller companies, they talked with each other in the arm, speaking their good will with loud conversation and laughter. But the greenhouses resembled apiaries on a beautiful spring day; incoming and outgoing could hardly be avoided. "

After 1945, there was a period of decline and gradual devastation of the rare park. Many scenery has completely disappeared in it. Some building elements were deliberately demolished, many were ruthlessly destroyed or dismantled into building material.

During the years 2006 to 2014, the municipality's management had the neglected park cleaned several times in order to remove overgrown trees. Some original healthy woody plants and every year the varied vegetation of the park were gradually removed by unprofessional interventions. During this period, part of the park behind the manor house was separated and sold into personal ownership, including the castle ruins - a park ruin from the 19th century. The only weak patch on the part of the then village management was the planting of several new trees.

Source: Voderady info