This vineyard mansion lies on a plain on the northern outskirts of Maribor on the slopes of a hilly world planted with vineyards. Until 1937 the Benedictine Admont Monastery that possessed a lot of land in this area, mainly vineyards, owned it. Archival sources mention that the hills behind the mansion were used as vineyards already in the 11th century.
What does the interior conceal?
Under the mansion’s apparent unified architecture there hides a diverse and interesting constructional history comprising three centuries. The two-storeyed mansion is composed of four different tracts, which surround the interior right-angled courtyard. The architectoral nucleus is the entrance tract dating from the 17th century with its cross-shaped vaulted wine cellar. In the first half of the 18th century the southern, and in the second half of the 18th century the western outhouse tracts were built. During that time the mansion was given a late Baroque, classicist image. A coat of arms with the date 1778 in the tympanum bears witness to this period. A large wooden wine press was erected in the northern part of the eastern tract in the mid 19th century, in the second half of that same century the northern tract was built.