Bežanec Castle in its rich gallery offer, contains works of art by the most eminent Croatian painters and old masters. We offer the possibility of intermediary sales of your paintings, works of art and antiques.
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Commercial Introducing In function: 20 years like a exclusive hotel The property: Includes cca11 hectares of the closer area surrounded (a possibility for a development in an area of 95 hectares).
Main object: The castle itself ( base approx 45 x 45 m), has 30 rooms with connecting bathrooms , a conference hall, 5 banquet halls, a restaurant on 2 closed levels with a capacity of 150 pax, an atrium and outside terraces with a capacity of even 600 pax. There is also a representative wine cellar, a night club with a capacity for approx 250 guests. The kitchen and warehouse workspaces are HACCP certified. The attic of the castle approx 1400 m2, still is not utilised, although extremely attractive for a readjustment of another 25 luxurious rooms!
Auxiliary objects: Stable with 20 modern boxes ( 35 x 12 m), built in two useful levels, accompanying object ( 30 x 12 m) a potential additional object with 20 rooms on first floor and with a large banquet hall at a ground floor. Near by the castle are 2 tennis grounds, 4 corals, and a forest area, arranged as a Zoo. Own castle’s parking space for more than 100 cars, for respectively buses and also 4 VIP garage spaces!
Other rights Owner has also in possession a designing project for making a golf course, a hippodrome and some other attractive facilities. Just now, together with the Municipality, is in analyse a very pay out thermal spring (78 C), whose capacity could supply with thermal water facilities, a large hotel complex! It is necessary to mention our «St Valentine’s» address, which can be widely used!
Business perspective The castle with its facilities can guarantee an adequate profitability even without investment. It has necessary licences, and is categorized . Is unique Hotel Castle in this part of Europe having always numerous additional inquires for all type of high level services like: protocol ceremonies, conferences, dancing bales, art expositions, weddings, presentations, meetings, trainings, sport turners and other events.
Sales perception The value assessment for the object itself, together with the whole property and facilities is at least 7.6 MIO EUR (f.i. the castle and the equipment value of one well organized hotel in West EC; 3500 m2 x 3500 EUR = 12.5 MIO EUR). All document of the Hotel Castle Bezanec d.o.o. are settled in accordance with the laws of the R. of Croatia and are clear.
Whether you or your team of experts, would estimate that this particular opportunity is interesting for you, we shall gladly answer all your questions, as well as host you in the offered object! Note: If you like to buy a real estate in Croatia, best solution is to buy through a legal person, like in this case. Thank you for the attention and welcome!
The book and reported value is EUR 7.5 million. The current price of the acquired status for the purchase of all rights, company d.o.o., equipment and the well-established Hotel is EUR 5.6 million. With the possibility of renting the castle with activity or at rest, for a certain period of time in order to convince yourself of the quality of the offer! There is a possibility of agreement on further joint investment
I have owned the Bežanec castle for more than twenty years, as the only investor in the renovation, content and maintenance! We operate as an exclusive hotel!
Siniša Križanec
· GSM: 00385 98 230 343
· email: sinisa@hotel-dvorac-bezanec.hr
Sinisa Krizanec self-taught designer, contractor, investor, hotel and travel wizard, he managed for only a year to edit and open on "Christmas Eve" 1990.y. the first hotel-castle Republic of Croatia.
Revitalizacija Bežanec
Counts Keglevic chose the location and started building the castle in the 17-th century. Later, it was inhabited by aristocratic families Kolenbach , Schlaum Linden , Ottonfels Geswind. The castle Bezanec was restorated in 1990 by Siniša Križanec , on his own initiative. It was, and still is, the first equiped hotel-castle in Croatia , an active micro example of possible valorization and commercialisation of the rest of the 54 , onetime, aristocratic homes in Hrvatsko Zagorje. With his experience and acquired knowledge of uninfluenced designing, organization of attractions, architectural restoration and personal financial risk, Siniša Križanec expressed his ambition to revive the Old Town Bosiljevo and the Castle Gornja Rijeka by taking them on 99-year long leasehold.
After being stolen, the castle Bezanec was turned into an orphanage. Later, it was given into hands of native people who further devastated the place by using its construction materials to build their own houses. While there was still materials which could be burnt, they used the castle for smoking meat and sausages, which was only one among plenty of their "genious" ideas. Eventually, the castle and its surrounding were turned into a legal waste dump. It is a paradox that since 1964 the castle has been registered as a worldwide cultural heritage monument, together with the other hundred monuments in Hrvatsko Zagorje which experienced the same destiny. The complex reconstruction and education of native people as well as the castle's service team lasted less than a year. We reconstructed 5000 m2 of interior and about 5 hectares of exterior. What's more, we created facilities and program which pulled this passive region out of anonymity. Recognized as an exclusive hotel, the castle was listed among the most important resources for raising the national reputation and regional conscience. Siniša Križanec gained a lot of experience with his personal commitment and knowledge, which helped him to see the importance of cultural inherit age and values. Because of this experience and his desire to see the fast economical recuperation and despite the personal risk and nonprofits, he decided to pass the success of the micro example of the castle Bezanec into the success on the macro level.
The castle and the park Bezanec are in Valentinovo near Pregrada on a small hill in the vicinity of the creek Plemenscina, from where a picturesque Kostelska valley can be seen.
The castle was built at the end of the 17th century as a one-storey four-winged building with the court. In the 30-ies of the 19th century it was renovated in the spirit of classicism thus becoming one of the most representative courts in our country. Triangular gables rise in the middle of all fronts in the roof area. A tower clock is above the main front, the memory of old castle towers. Fronts are broken down by pilasters, decorated by altana on the main south-eastern side and loggias on the first floor and open arcades on the ground floor on the south-western side. Court fronts are open by arcades. The castle is the worldwide cultural heritage monument. It is approached through the ash-tree-like maples way 90 m long, developed after 1911. It is not known when the park was established. In 1861 there was a park north-east from the castle. There are two stages in the development of the park. The oldest one corresponds to the time of the castle renewal - the 30-ies of the 19th century. Then, a small park of 1220 m2 developed behind the castle. Today, there are still some trees from that period in it - ginkgo, basswood and buttonballs. The second stage belongs to the period between 1900 and 1911 when the entrance portal was made, hedge was trimmed around the park, spruces were planted along the way and on the area south of the castle a park of 3100 m2 was developed. The retaining stone wall next to the road, south of the castle, existed before 1900.
Once, a park was carefully taken care of. Nada and Cecille Ottenfels remember the park from the 30-ies of the 20th century when there were annual flowers, rhododendrons, azaleas, jasmines, syringas, ground boxes, roses, bay laurels and palms. The south-eastern front was covered with clematis and Japanese roses and pelargoniums were on the balcony. Apart from a three-hundred-year old basswood, the following trees were in the park: Caucasian fir, ginkgo, Catawba tree, buttonballs, poplars and other kinds of trees. Six village girls took care of palms in the castle in the second half of the 19th century. Three of them watered palms daily in the summer and the other three took care about them and heated the orangery in winter. The property Bezanec was owned by counts Keglevic, then a baron Kollenbach, a baron Schlaum-Linden and finally a baron Ottenfels-Gschwind. The castle belonged to the family Ottenfels, originating from Carinthia, for the longest period of time.
Ottenfels got a title of the German empire knight in 1653 and in 1696 they were accepted in Kranj and in 1698 Styrian orders. In 1710 Wolf Jakob Ottenfels got an Austrian barony. His son Franz Otto inherited in 1751 from his uncle Johann Martin Baron Gschwind, an imperial field-marshal and the last of his stock, properties, as well as his surname Ottenfels-Gschwind.
There were two persons in the family whose names were particularly connected to the castle - Franjo Ksaver (1778 - 1851) and his wife Josipa, née baroness Schlaum-Linden.
Franjo Ksaver was an Austrian ambassador in Constantinople (1822-1833) and a Metternich's advisor in Vienna (1833-1846). He had an excellent knowledge of oriental antiquities. He had a big oriental collection of documents that his namesake grandson deposited with the State archives in Zagreb in 1942. Various stories are connected with the name of Josipa Ottenfels. She lived in Bezanec from 1842 until her death in 1885 when she was buried in a family in a parish church in Pregrada. She was stubborn and all members of the family had to obey her. During her stay in Bezanec, the castle was constantly repaired and renovated and scaffolds were there for decades. The story said that on her way from Constantinople a gypsy foretold her that she would live as long as she built. In 1842 trunks with furniture and carpets arrived from Constantinople that she had not time to open during her life. After Josipa's death, Persian carpets, pictures and furniture were taken from trunks. Among them was particularly significant a sofa covered with the blue velvet with golden embroidery given to Franjo Ksaver by a Turkish vizier.
The castle Bezanec frequently adapted according to the ideas of retroactive owners. As a neglected cultural monument since 1964, it experienced a high-quality improvement in 1990.
Thanks to the present owner, Sinisa Krizanec, who took a self-initiated liberty to give purpose to the property, to plan, finance everything thus creating a priority commercial function that enables maintenance of one of the most beautiful classicist representatives of the architectural monumental heritage. Following the rules of the restoration, once a family castle was adapted to the most purposeful way of high-quality presentation through a tourist receptive revalorization of the present time.
