Historická záhrada na Mýtnej ulici v Bratislave

Abstract

The study addresses the creation and early development of the ornamental garden in Mýtna St. in Bratislava. The site was originally a smaller garden on the outskirts of the Blumentál suburb at the time, located in the vicinity of a road running to Rača. The first stage of the garden documented in a drawing shows the main axis intersecting the centre of the courtyard and a simple symmetric composition of three fields of vegetation lined by tree alleys. Based on an analysis and comparison of written sources and plans, we assume the founding of the garden in the second half of the 1770s. A re-evaluation of the name Esterházy Garden is based on reliable information in historical sources designating the archbishop’s administrator Štefan Ormosdy as the owner. Based on the entry in the book of property transfers, Ormosdy acquired the parcels located near the Archbishop’s Summer Palace in 1774 when the town’s St. Ladislaus Hospital sold its vineyards, meadows, fields and mills at auction.

Keywords

• historical garden
• Štefan Ormosdy
• Blumentál suburb
• Prešporok/Bratislava