Vižovlje manor and its residents: a contribution to the history of the Galjuf (Gallyuff, Gallyuf, Calliuff) noble family and a historical manor

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to, in way of interpreting the spirit of the place and using an interdisciplinary approach, present the history of one branch of the Galjuf family, which was seated at Vižovlje Manor in the west part of the Krapina-Zagorje County, several kilometers northwest of Veliko Trgovišće. In this sense, the paper is focused on the biographical data of those family members who were the owners of the manor. The social-architectural status of the manor in view of the terms dvorac and kurija is also discussed, since Croatian professional and scholarly literature has yet to precisely distinguish the meanings of these terms. The basic architectural elements of the manor are described, as are the changes during the observed period, with reference to the current scholarly knowledge about their appearance based on available historical sources. A significant source on social life in the manor and the changes that followed the social-economic developments of that time is the »Spomen-knjiga posjetilaca dvorca u Vižovlju« (Commemorative Visitor Book of Vižovje Manor), one of the rare preserved commemorative books from a Zagorje manor. It is also a paradigmatic portrayal of the life of Zagorje’s minor nobility in the late 18th and the 19th century.