The greatest concentration of manor houses in Šariš is in the region of Horna Torysa, where there is at least one manor house in almost every village. In the village of Krivany near Lipany there were 11 to 12 manorial courts, 11 larger Dessewffy manors and 3 to 4 wooden peasant manor houses under mansard shingle roofs. Manor houses were in the village earlier. The village was founded as early as the 13th century, and a castle-type landlord settlement (probably under the Tarcay family) is assumed to have existed in its vicinity. In modern times the village was owned by the Dessewffy family, then the Nakay family, later the Passuth family and finally the Bornemisz family. It is said that Lajos Bornemisz received it as a wedding present in 1863.
One of the cultural monuments in the village is a Renaissance one-storey manor house from the first half of the 17th century. The manor house was built with cylindrical corner towers and was built by the Dessewffy family as a castle, a defensive manor house with an attic and in it with shooting galleries. It thus fulfilled a defensive function.
The first major reconstruction of the manor was in the 18th century. At that time, the interior layout was changed and a number of new vaults were built. The building has a rectangular plan with a projecting buttress on the main north façade and two oval towers on the corners of the south façade. It is two-storeyed and has a basement throughout. The individual rooms of the basement are vaulted. The ground-floor rooms are covered with various types of moulded vaulting with chamfers and stucco decoration, as well as with younger Prussian vaults and with richer stucco decoration. In the core, a Renaissance building with aesthetic and functional minor modifications represents a valuable type of manor house with a lot of valuable details from each construction phase of the modification. Its importance is increased by the fact that it preserved the historical wall of the premises with the entrance gate, or remnants of the historic park, which enhance the value of the monument.
In the first half of the 19th century, the exterior was significantly modified, when it acquired a new appearance after a typical late-classical style. The facades were covered with distinctive sculptural lysen frames. The roofing of the building was also modified.
The English park near the manor house was created in the first half of the 19th century. Today, however, it has been destroyed by the village development. In the courtyard of the manor there were stables, coach houses, outbuildings, a granary and a cottage.
In the 20th century, the building was renovated again, first in the 1950s, when it was adapted for the needs of a school, later as the headquarters of the Local National Committee, and after restitution as a restaurant. Despite inappropriate interventions and modifications, the building retains its original layout with many architectural and craft details.
Source: pamiatkynaslovensku.sk
