The Small Castle
At
the highest point of the landscape-garden, hardly a year after its establishment,
the "ermitage" was completed. A house of fulfilment in two respects.
The builder, József Grossman, "the great finisher", Fellner's assistant,
the man, who had to complete the building of the liceum in Eger, the churches
in Pápa and Tata for others, some months before his death could at last
show what he was able to accomplish if entrusted with an original task.
This summer house was the last achivement of the great period of building
in the town - the centre of the manor was completed. The new outbuilding
, castles, churches and schools made Tata very attractive for the travellers
of the era.
In 1793, a MR Townson from Britain remarked: "one would be glad to spend
some pleasant moments here together with a beautiful lady".
So could the English-style landscape-garden move an Englishman to forget
about his compulsory composure...
