1603–1612 · after 1663 Rebuilt once, then given upRaz obnovený, potom vzdaný

Žigmund Balassa rebuilt the castle between about 1603 and 1612, and the village below it was resettled at the same time. It did not hold. The seventeenth century put this country through a run of anti-Habsburg risings and one more Ottoman advance — Nové Zámky fell in 1663 and the frontier came north again — and by the end of it the upper castle was a shell nobody thought worth repairing. A hilltop fortress only makes sense while there is something to defend from it. When the wars finally ended, there was not.Žigmund Balaša dal hrad okolo rokov 1603 – 1612 znova postaviť a v tom istom čase sa nanovo zaľudnila aj dedina pod ním. Nevydržalo to. Sedemnáste storočie prehnalo krajinou sériu protihabsburských povstaní a ešte jeden osmanský postup — roku 1663 padli Nové Zámky a hranica sa opäť posunula na sever — a na jeho konci bol horný hrad prázdnou škrupinou, ktorú už nikomu nestálo za opravu. Hrad na kopci má zmysel dovtedy, kým je z čoho brániť. Keď sa vojny skončili, nebolo.