The name of the village Lemešany is rooted in the word „lemeš“, an ancient word for language. The word lemeš was the original name of the village, used as early as the 11th century. This name has passed into Hungarian without change. In the Slovak environment, the name Lemešany evolved. The village of Chabžany was annexed to the village of Lemešany in 1965. The village of Chabžany was one of the oldest Slovak villages. It probably existed before the 11th century. Chabžany is today a local part of the village of Lemešany.
The manor house was built in the 17th century, the facades and the first floor were modified in the second half of the 19th century. During the 20th century it was only minimally modified. The only intervention was the implementation of two new partitions in the interior, when the mansion was divided into two halves. The Galambócza or Berthóta family built the manor house as their residence or one of the residences owned by the village during the 17th century. The facade was then modified in the 19th century, when the Ujházy family (until 1863), whose coat of arms is depicted on the ancient shield, were the owners of the manor. In addition to the antique, a balcony was added and decorative niches with statues were created on the ground floor. The facades were enriched with cornices, a bossage and windows with wooden shutters were replaced. At the end of the 19th century a new roof, roof trusses, chimneys and decorative elements such as finials were added.
The vaulted cellars in the northern half are particularly original. The most valuable is the ground floor of the manor house, where the primary layout from the time of construction has been preserved. The individual rooms, the hall and corridors, more than twenty rooms in total, are vaulted with Renaissance vaults with sections with simple decoration - stucco ridges and, in some cases, with porphyry in the form of ribbed vaults. The rooms of the first floor have younger flat ceilings. The exterior retains a 19th-century expression, where the large stucco coat of arms on the brick attic is particularly rare.
In the region of Šariš only a minimum of coats of arms remained on noble residences, which sometimes decorated most of the manor houses, but in the course of the 20th century they were removed under various circumstances. The authenticity of the monument is also greatly enhanced by a number of spiritual craft details, such as historic doors, windows with shutters, stone and brick flooring on the ground floor, historic roof trusses and historic metal elements such as railings, roof spikes and the like.
However, the monument is not a monument in the legal sense of the word, as it has not been declared a national cultural monument. In spite of all the documents prepared for its declaration, it was not possible to complete this process due to property and legal problems. Half of the manor house is inhabited and thus maintained. However, the other part has several owners and the condition of the manor is very poor. The environment around the monument is relatively well preserved. The manor house is surrounded by the remains of a park and a farm area.
Source: pamiatkynaslovensku.sk
