Trink Manor

A striking example of a modest manor house in the center of Radeče.

• a manor house in the center of Radeče
  
• built in 1535 by Žiga Višnjegorski
• it has had at least 14 owners throughout its history
• today, the manor houses municipal apartments

Trink Manor, once the manor of Radeče, has been preserved in the centre of the town. Its construction was begun in 1535 by Žiga Višnjegorski.

In 1672, Baron Andrej Danijel Mordax transferred the seat of the Radeče estate from the decaying castle to the manor below the castle hill, today known as Trink Manor. After returning from distant America, the manor was purchased by Ignacij "Nace" Trink in 1922 or 1923, from whom it later took its name. Following the Second World War, the manor was nationalised. Today, the building contains municipal apartments.

Did you know ...

... how much the construction of Trink Manor cost?

In the journal Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje (No. 1–2/1979), Jože Curk writes in Radeče and Its Surroundings – An Architectural-Historical Sketch that Žiga Višnjegorski began building a new manor beneath the southern slope of the castle hill for 2,000 guilders. The manor combined residential and economic buildings. According to Curk, it may originally have had only one storey, while the shape of its windows suggests that it was elevated as early as the first half of the 17th century.

... who once owned Trink Manor?

The manor was built by Žiga Višnjegorski in 1535. In 1581, Gallenberg, guardian of the Višnjegorski heirs, sold the Radeče estate, including both the castle and the manor, to Wilhelm von Lamberg of Boštanj. In 1598, the mortgage rights were transferred to Innocenz von Moscon, who also owned Sevnica Castle, and in 1618 he purchased the Radeče estate outright.

In 1672, the estate was bought by Baron Andrej Danijel Mordax. In 1761, it was inherited by Baroness Gall and later by her son, Baron Gall, who sold it in 1797 to Matevž Bilec. From 1821 onwards, the estate belonged to Jožef Maksimilijan Posch, whose initials "JMP 1848" can still be seen on one of the rectangular portals. Through marriage to Posch's widow, Baron Gall later gained ownership, and in 1850 the estate was purchased from them by the Bavarian lieutenant Voll.

On 20 May 1867, the former Radeče and Svibno estates were bought at auction by the landowner Moric Löwenfeld, who thus also became owner of the two-storey manor beneath the castle hill. From 1968 onwards, the first floor of Trink Manor was home for 26 years to Mavricij Scheyer, an important forestry expert and prominent public figure in Radeče.