Slanec Castle
| Slanec Castle | ||
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 View of the castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | around 1281 | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Slanec | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 38 '14.1 " N , 21 ° 28' 15.3" E | |
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The castle Slanec (Slovak hrad Slanecký or Slansky hrad , Hungarian Nagyszalánc ) is a ruined castle from the 13th century in eastern Slovakia near the border with Hungary above the village Slanec .
history
According to a list from 1270, the castle did not yet exist at that time. It is believed that King Béla IV only allowed a fortification to be built after the Tatar storm in 1241. The first written testimony dates from 1281 when Ladislaus IV fought against Fintov or Finta , the royal palatine from the Abo family . He had the castle built out of stone, defied economic reforms and even wanted to have the king removed. Finally Ladislav prevailed. Fintov or Finta fled and lost his status as a palatine. A document from 1303 shows that the Slanec family was divided into two branches, Peter and Michael. Michael inherited and the castle went to the Abo house. After the ruling dynasty of the Árpáden died out , the crown went to the House of Anjou . Karl Robert von Anjou (also Karl I) could hardly prevail against the Hungarian oligarchy, which acted largely independently and to which the Lords of Slanec belonged. After the return of the Palatine Omodeja to Kosice in 1311 they stood at the side of Matthew Csák of Trenčín . After a battle of Rozhanovce with Charles I, it went to the king, who handed it over to Wilhelm Drugeth , who came from a family from Naples. After the coronation of Ludwig I , Wilhelm lived in seclusion and died in 1346. His brother Nikolaus I Drugeth inherited the castle, later owners were his son Johann III. and his grandson Nicholas III. After that, his daughter Anna was the owner of Slanec and after her death her granddaughter Anna, who was married to the voivod Ladislaus Lossonczy . This Slanec came into the possession of the noble family altmadjarischen Tomaj . In 1387 Slanec belonged to Semplin County .
King Albrecht ruled from 1437–1439 , who died at the same time as his son Ladislaus Postumus , who was nicknamed "the next born". His mother Elisabeth led the regency. To assert himself, Ladislaus got help from Johann Giskra von Brandeis , who was feared because of his actions during the Hussite Wars . The opponent was Prince Władysław of the Jagiellonian family .
In 1440 Johann Giskra occupied Slanec because its masters, the Lossonczy family, were supporters of Władysław the Jagellion, and Slanec Castle was almost completely destroyed. In 1448 Johann Hunyadi persuaded King Sigismund to return the property, who gave Ladislaus Lossonczy to him on condition that he would be alleged. However, it is not known whether the castle was rebuilt immediately by Ladislaus or by his son Sigismund.
After the Lossonczys died out in 1601, King Rudolf gave the castle to Sigismund Forgács . Then Prince Stephan Bocskai occupied Slanec and almost all of Upper Hungary . In 1606 Forgács regained Slanec Castle and in the same year became imperial judge and in 1618 Palatine. He died in Tyrnau in 1621 . The sons Adam and Sigmund followed as lords of the castle. In 1643 Adam became head of the captaincy of Košice. Georg I. Rákóczi , the leader of the anti-Habsburg forces, took over Kosice almost without a fight . Adam fled to Vienna to Ferdinand III. to inform him of Rákóczi's strength. Adam fell in the battle against Rákóczi, and the castle was almost completely destroyed.
In 1679 the Kuruc wanted to destroy Slanec, the castle guard set fire to the property so that it did not fall into the hands of the Kuruc. Like the Turňa Castle , it fell into the hands of the Kuruc general Jakob Lestie. The ruins were still held in 1703 by another Kuruc leader - Franz II Rákóczi. After he went into exile in Turkey in 1711, the eventful history of the castle, which now only existed as a ruin, ended.
