During 13th century, the original water chateau served as seat of magnates from Svätý Jur and Pezinok. Eight hundred years later the renewed chateau opened own gates. Štefan of the Šimák generation established there winery, hotel and exhibition of wine, glass as well as of the Pálffy family. The end of the Austro – Hungarian Empire, creation of Czechoslovakia and the two world wars represented hard times for...