after 1682 The rock is left aloneSkalu nechajú tak

Nobody rebuilt. Artillery had made this kind of hilltop fortress ruinously expensive, and once the Ottoman frontier moved south for good in the 1680s and 1690s it was also pointless; the county's business went down to the towns of the plain and never came back up. The walls became a quarry and then a curiosity. That is why Fiľakovo is a ruin in the middle of a living town rather than a castle standing above one.Nikto ho neobnovil. Delostrelectvo urobilo z takejto pevnosti na kopci nesmierne drahú vec a keď sa osmanská hranica v osemdesiatych a deväťdesiatych rokoch sedemnásteho storočia natrvalo posunula na juh, aj zbytočnú; úradovanie stolice zišlo dolu do miest na rovine a hore sa už nevrátilo. Z hradieb sa stal lom a potom zvláštnosť. Preto je Fiľakovo zrúcaninou uprostred živého mesta, a nie hradom, ktorý nad mestom stojí.