The revolution of 1848 abolished serfdom in Hungary, and the villagers around Galanta became owners of the strips they had worked for a lord. Two years later the railway from Bratislava to Pest was opened through the town, and it changed everything the old road had once decided. Galanta became a junction: grain, goods and people moved through it at a speed nobody in 1800 could have imagined. In 1860 József Esterházy had the family's older house rebuilt yet again, this time in the neo-Gothic fashion — turrets, pointed windows, a medieval look laid over a seventeenth-century body. That is the building people photograph today.Revolúcia roku 1848 zrušila v Uhorsku poddanstvo a sedliaci v okolí Galanty sa stali vlastníkmi pásov pôdy, ktoré dovtedy obrábali pre pána. O dva roky neskôr otvorili cez mesto železnicu z Bratislavy do Pešti a tá zmenila všetko, o čom kedysi rozhodovala stará cesta. Z Galanty sa stal uzol: obilie, tovar aj ľudia sa cez ňu pohybovali rýchlosťou, akú by si v roku 1800 nikto nevedel predstaviť. V roku 1860 dal József Esterházy starší rodinný dom prestavať znova, tentoraz novogoticky — vežičky, lomené okná, stredoveký vzhľad položený na telo zo 17. storočia. Je to práve tá budova, ktorú si dnes ľudia fotia.
