1945 – 2007 Sixty years of standing open to the skyŠesťdesiat rokov pod holým nebom

What the fire left was a shell: the walls stood, the roofs did not. It stayed that way for more than sixty years. Rain went in, frost got into the joints, floors and vaults came down and scrub took the courtyard, while the village around it industrialised — a co-operative farm from 1952, a timber works, a transhipment yard for the engineering plant that became PPS Detva. Plans to restore the castle were drawn up in 1970 and again in 1977 and came to little; only in 1980 was part of the outer fortification repaired. By the 2000s Vígľaš was simultaneously on every list of Slovakia's most endangered monuments and one of its most photographed buildings — a famous ruin people drove out to look at precisely because it was so far gone.Po požiari zostal plášť: múry stáli, strechy nie. Tak to vydržalo vyše šesťdesiat rokov. Dnu pršalo, mráz sa dostal do škár, stropy a klenby padali a nádvorie zarástlo — kým obec navôkol sa industrializovala: od roku 1952 jednotné roľnícke družstvo, drevársky podnik, prekládková stanica pre strojáreň, z ktorej sa neskôr stali PPS Detva. Zámery na obnovu zámku vznikli v roku 1970 a znovu v roku 1977 a veľa z nich nebolo; až v roku 1980 opravili časť vonkajšieho opevnenia. Začiatkom tohto storočia bol Vígľaš naraz na každom zozname najohrozenejších pamiatok Slovenska aj medzi jeho najfotografovanejšími stavbami — slávna ruina, za ktorou ľudia chodili práve preto, že bola v takom stave.