Slovakia · 13th century
Kamenica Castle was a castle east of the village of Kamenica in eastern Slovakia. It was built during the reign of the Árpáds in the middle of the 13th century. It served to secure militarily the road connections between Hungary and Poland as well as being a hunting seat of the king. The first owner of the castle was the Tarczay family. On 12 June 1556 the fortress was captured and destroyed by the army of Ferdinand I of Habsburg under General Zsigmond Forgách.
The ruin later came, together with the village of the same name, into the possession of the Hungarian princely family Dessewffy, to which the publicist József Dessewffy also belonged. The owning family Tahy demolished the greater part of the remaining complex in 1816 in order to obtain stones from it for their distillery in nearby Lúčka.
The ruin is a listed monument (see the list of protected monuments in Kamenica (Slovakia)).
Machine-translated from “Burg Kamenica” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamenica Castle ranks #7,518 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #100 of the 135 mapped in Slovakia. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 60% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Prešov, 29 km away. See how Slovakia compares in the castle statistics.
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