1530–1550 Fortifying against the raidsOpevňovanie proti nájazdom

After the Ottoman victory at Mohács in 1526 the frontier moved north year by year, and everything in this valley was rebuilt with that in mind. The manor house on the rocky knoll in the middle of Žarnovica, which had gone up around 1490, was fortified between 1530 and 1550 — thick walls, small windows, a house made defensible. The mining towns upstream paid for a screen of strengthened castles across the southern approaches, and Revište was one of them. Nobody in this valley expected a formal siege; what they expected was a raiding column that arrived fast and left with people and cattle.Po osmanskom víťazstve pri Moháči v roku 1526 sa hranica rok čo rok posúvala na sever a všetko v tejto doline sa prestavovalo s ohľadom na to. Kaštieľ na skalnatom návrší uprostred Žarnovice, ktorý vyrástol okolo roku 1490, medzi rokmi 1530 a 1550 opevnili — hrubé múry, malé okná, dom, ktorý sa dal brániť. Banské mestá proti prúdu platili clonu zosilnených hradov na južných prístupoch a Revište bolo jedným z nich. Riadne obliehanie tu nikto nečakal; čakal sa nájazdný oddiel, ktorý príde rýchlo a odíde s ľuďmi a dobytkom.