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The Royal Palace of Gödöllő (German: Schloss Gödöllő, Hungarian: Gödöllői Királyi Kastély) or Grassalkovich Castle is an imperial and royal Hungarian palace located in the municipality of Gödöllő in Pest county, central Hungary. It is famous for being a favourite place of the Queen of Hungary.
The baroque-style Reformed Church, built in 1745, is an onion dome church with a beautifully simple façade. The building process was patronized; the money and the plot for the church were donated by Antal Grassalkovich I who had demolished a Reformed Church built in 1657 at the site of the present Royal Castle.
Grassalkovich was Maria Theresa's vassal, so the palace was used for various balls and parties of the Habsburg royal court. [1] For example, it was Haydn who conducted the orchestra when Maria Theresa's daughter married Albert of Sachsen-Teschen, then governor of the Kingdom of Hungary (see Bratislava Castle).
In 2014, the Széchenyi Sigismund Hunting Museum was opened in the Grassalkovich Castle in Hatvan, in which the Széchenyi Sigismund Memorial Room was also created with his personal objects and memories. October 2022, several personal items were added to the exhibition, including furniture, paintings that had been in the home of Margit ...
The former Hatvan Castle was probably destroyed during this era. From 1746 to 1841, the city belonged to Antal Grassalkovich I and his family. He ordered the building of the present Grassalkovich Mansion and the parish in the mid-18th century. Antal Grassalkovich I made several architects to build this so-called castle in two separate parts.
Grassalkovich Palace Garden (Prezidentská záhrada) Old Town behind the Grassalkovich Palace between Štefánikova Street and Banskobystrická Street. The garden is guarded by a security service and it is open only during opening hours. Poor Clares Garden (Záhrada Klarisiek) Old Town, behind the walls of the Poor Clares Cloister on Klariská ...
Among the sightseeing spots, the former Grassalkovich Castle, built in 1750 in Baroque style, is worth looking at. A granary was additionally built beside the castle in 1770. Its basement has quarters which were built in the Middle Ages and are covered with staved brick arches presumably built by the Benedictines .
Jung arrived in Hatvan in 1763 and began work for the Grassalkovich family, particularly for the rebuilding of the family castle. In 1767 he led the extensions of the Podmaniczky castle at Aszód. From 1773 he worked in Pest as well as the country, and among others, built the Gomba reformed church in 1774-6 and the Pest priest's college.