Kamenica Castle
| Kamenica Castle | ||
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 Kamenica castle ruins, 2006 |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Kamenica | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 11 '45.4 " N , 20 ° 58' 12.2" E | |
| Height: | 725 m nm | |
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The castle Kamenica was a castle east of the village of Kamenica in eastern Slovakia . It was built during the Árpád reign in the middle of the 13th century. It served the military protection of road connections between Hungary and Poland and as the king's hunting seat. The first owner of the castle was the Tarczay family. On June 12, 1556, the fortress was conquered and destroyed by the army of Ferdinand I von Habsburg under General Zsigmond Forgách .
The ruin and the village of the same name later came into the possession of the Hungarian princely family Dessewffy, to which the journalist József Dessewffy also belonged. The Tahy family, who owned it, demolished most of the remaining plant in 1816 in order to extract stones for their distillery in nearby Lúčka .
The ruin is a listed building (see list of listed objects in Kamenica (Slovakia) ).
literature
- Michal Slivka, Adrián Vallašek: Hrady a hrádky na východnom Slovensku. Východoslovenské vydavateľstvo, Košice 1991, sv
