Kezdi chair Valea Seaca Pótsa Mansion

Pótsa Mansion

Kezdi chair Valea Seaca Valea Seacă, jud. Covasna

In the lower half of the village, on a spacious plot delimited by a masonry stone fence, stands the former manor house of the Pótsa family with late classicist features. The exact date of its construction is unknown.

The entrance to the lot is provided by a gate that juts out from the street line, this is a common solution in villages with narrow streets. On both sides of the pedestrian gate and driveway, which is covered with tiles and placed between massive gate legs, niches were created in the masonry copper. To the left of the entrance, between the bare walls of the manor house's former granary, the vault of the cellar is already crumbling. Fortunately, they live in a manor house, so it has been preserved in fairly good condition. The regular mass of the rectangular ground plan, two-bay, sub-basement building is covered by a tent roof.
The portico with columns and tympanum jutting out in front of the main entrance is located in the symmetry axis of the building. A narrow porch runs along the back side, which is interrupted in the middle by a smaller building wing that was once used as an oven. On the facade and two short sides of the building, in the line of the eaves, there is a prominent, plastered brick cornice, the rich section of which also frames the tympanum of the porch. Some of the shuttered windows of the whitewashed mansion have been replaced, but a rectangular glazed tile stove is still preserved here, in the former dining room, a copy of which can be found in the Kálnoky castle in Miklósvár.

Ferenc Rettegi bought the mansion and its living space from Zsuzsanna Pótsa in 1918 for his large family. His descendants and heirs live in the mansion today.

Country houses (Kúria)