This beautifully located hunting mansion was built between 1914 and 1916 by Count Ballestrem according to the modern style of French Secession. The block structure constructed of bricks has been made over the high stone basement and the façade was decorated by several turrets, arcades, sculptures, terraces and exterior starcaise. The interior spaces of this impressive edifice have been designed in the same style. The mansion should have been used as a summer residence for the Austrian emperor Franz Josef and German emperor Wilhelm II, but these visits never took place because of the WWI. This comfortly furnished mansion was equiped with the most modern technology of that time and had also its own electric power station. During the WWII the mansion was burned down by the German troops in September 1944. The last Count Ballestrem died in Dresden (Germany) during the allies bombing at the end of the WWII and his property was confiscated by the state in 1946. From 1959 to the early 70ties it was under the reconstruction and later used as a sanatorium for the members of the Slovak National Resistance Movement during the WWII.