Following the recession of the Turkish submission, officer Johann Georg, descendant from an industrial family from Upper Austria, received the land of almost all of Békés county from King Chares of Hungary III, in return for his services to the country. He repopulated the almost desolate region with Hungarian, German, Slovakian and Romanian settlers. The construction of the baroque block of the mansion was commissioned by his son Francis Harruckern whose grandson Francis Wenckheim made it into an unparalleled noble residency. Beside it, he raised a riding-hall and planted exotic plants into his park and winter-garden.
The mansion got into the possession of the Almásy family through the marriage of Countess Stephanie Mary Wenckheim and Count Kálmán Almásy. The last Almásy heir, Aloysius, committed suicide in November, 1945, his younger brother Kálmán decided to remain in England at the outbreak of World War II. At the end of the 2nd World War, the mansion was nationalised and in its building, first a vocational, than a nursing school with a dormitory and finally an orphanage were established. In the 1960’s, a thermal bath was opened in the larger part of the mansion’s park. The mansion was slowly vacated in the 1990’s.