1848 The manor burns, serfdom endsKaštieľ horí, poddanstvo sa končí

The year 1848 did two things to this town at once. The revolution abolished serfdom across the Habsburg lands, which mattered more here than in a royal mining town: the people of Žarnovica had been a landlord's subjects, owing him labour and dues, and now they were not. And the manor house in the middle of the town burned down that same year. It was rebuilt with an extra storey and a late-Classicist front, which is why a building begun around 1490 looks nineteenth-century from the street.Rok 1848 urobil tomuto mestu dve veci naraz. Revolúcia zrušila v habsburských krajinách poddanstvo, čo tu znamenalo viac než v kráľovskom banskom meste: Žarnovičania boli poddanými zemepána, dlžní mu robotu a dávky — a zrazu neboli. A kaštieľ uprostred mesta v tom istom roku vyhorel. Obnovili ho, nadstavali o poschodie a dostal neskoroklasicistickú fasádu; preto budova začatá okolo roku 1490 vyzerá z ulice ako devätnáste storočie.