The degree of conservation of the ruins is relatively large. Relatively most disturbed the core of the castle, which at first glance is a two-tower layout with a palace clamped between prismatic towers. But the towers are slightly rotated against each other and the palace does not form a single block with them. Only the ground plan halves were preserved from the towers. The entrance gate was entered via a rising wooden bridge. The wall of the original frontier was followed by a new part of the castle with a horseshoe cannon bastion with drop bars.Under the threat of the Turks, a lower castle with farm buildings was built. The access road to the upper castle then led through four gates via sophisticated serpentines, whose straight sections were always defended from a higher point.

The beginnings of the Dobrá Voda castle probably date back to the last third of the 13th century, and its builder is considered to be the comedy Aba Veľký, from the Hlohovec branch of the Abovce family. In 1316 the castle was besieged, acquired and until 1320 owned by Matúš Čák Trenčiansky. Then it was a royal property until the end of the 14th century, when King Sigismund donated it to Stibor of Stiborice in 1394. The castle belonged to the Stibor family until 1434, when the family died out in the male line by Stibor II. Two years later, Sigismund donated it to his favorite Michal Országh. The Országhs improved the protection of the fort by building a cannon bastion and building a barbican. This family probably built a lower castle with three bastions and farm buildings during the Turkish danger. Krištof Országh, the last male descendant of the family, died in 1567 and the castle became the property of the crown again.

King Maximilian II. he immediately gave the castle to the Croatian nobleman Ján Choron from Deveč, but the Croatian ban Krištof Ungnad from Sonneck also showed interest in the castle estate. As the husband of Anna, the daughter of Štefan Losonczy, he exercised a pre-emption right to the castle. In 1583 he bought the castle from Emperor Rudolf II. Through his daughter Anna Mária, married to the hero of the anti-Turkish struggles of Tomáš Erdődy, the castle estate then fell into the hands of this important family - the Erdődy.

At the end of the 17th century, the Erdődy family already inhabited many mansions and palaces in the towns, and the Dobrá Voda castle began to fall into disrepair. The war events during the Rákóczi uprising at the beginning of the 18th century also contributed to this, as did the fire that broke out here in 1792 after a lightning strike. For a temporary period, only the manor prison remained. In 2008, the first and second stages of professional research of the upper castle and eastern fortification took place.

There are no myths available.

The ruin is freely accessible

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