Mill Kopácsy is located at the most beautiful area of Veszprém, in the valley of stream Séd.

History of the Building’s Architecture

The current mill has most likely been in the same place since the Middle Ages. The earliest report of the mill’s existence is from 1765, which we found in the protocol of the city Veszprém. There is also a note about the building in a map fifteen years earlier. We also know that its name was already Kopácsy in the 1830s and that it had three waterwheels. There is also a map from 1857 that contains the mill, but the L-figured building does not yet have some of the parts it has now because they were built later on. In the 1950s, the building was socialized and private homes were settled in the main building and the outhouses, as well. Then, in the 1980s, the building was used as a tailoring and as a locker. Because the appliances were heavy, the wooden frame was enforced with steel to increase its strength. After the tailoring had been given up, the building was standing empty and rusty for a fairly long time. The building’s frontage, which faces the street, is Classicist. The other façades are simple plastered walls with some scattered windows, and the building shows signs that it was rebuilt more times.

Reconstruction and Expansion

The new owner of the building planned to run it as a hotel and also wanted to build some apartment houses in it. The current layout of the area goes by the grown zone. Each building stands at varying distances from the others, which makes exciting and intimate interiors in the yard. Right next to the parcel is a huge green area with the bishop’s resting pavilion.

Thanks to the reconstructions, the mill building is an appropriate place for different kinds of occasions. In the hotel, on the ground floor, there is an event room, a pub, and a brewery. The guestrooms are on the first floor and in the attic.

As we decided to keep the characteristics of the mill, we placed the entrance at the middle of the building facing the Séd stream (the event room is at the right of the entrance and the pub is on its left). We kept the saloon at level-two height and the doorway in the corner of the building. We also reconstructed windows on the first floor, which had been found during artistic research, and the wooden ceiling of the pub, which brings a nice atmosphere to the room. In the hall walls, we found the axis of the wheels, so we made them visible. In the hall and in the pub, the walls are unpainted so the brickwork is visible, too. As we could save most of the original roofing, which looks quite tarnished, we also kept it and made it visible.

There are two new apartment houses, which together contain six apartments with balconies facing the castle. There is a panorama balcony on the top of one of the apartment houses from where you can see the park, the castle, and the bishop’s resting pavilion. On the house façades are wooden louvers before the glass walls, which make the apartments more intimate and safer. The apartment houses match the mill due to their simplicity and white color.