Plavecky Castle ruins

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Plavecký Castle (Slovak: Plavecký hrad) is a ruined medieval castle in the municipality of Plavecké Podhradie in the Bratislava region of south-west Slovakia. It is located on the western foothills of the Little Carpathians.

Most likely the building of the castle was an initiative of king Béla IV of Hungary. It was built shortly after the middle of the 13th century as a castle on the frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary. The castle was first mentioned in relation to the Hungarian-Czech wars in documents of Ladislaus IV of Hungary. In 1273, one of the battles against the Czech king Ottokar II of Bohemia took place right below the Plavecký castle. In 1394, Sigismund of Luxembourg donated the castle to his loyal duke Stibor of Stiboricz.

Castle was involved in fights during the Thököly anti-Habsburg rebellion in 1683. In 1706 the imperial troops conquered the castle from the rebel.

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