In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Pezinok was one of the wealthiest towns in the Kingdom of Hungary, and what paid for it was wine. Gold was still being taken out of the hills into the eighteenth century; then the veins gave out and the miners went over to pyrite and antimony instead — less romantic ore, but there was more of it. The castle stood empty by the early 1700s. What emptied it is not clearly recorded, and it is worth resisting the usual answer: the Ottomans never held this town, though the Rákóczi war of 1703–11 was fought across this countryside. In 1718 Ján Pálffy had the derelict building repaired, and the Pálffy family held it from then on.V 17. a 18. storočí patril Pezinok k najbohatším mestám Uhorska a platilo to všetko víno. Zlato sa z kopcov vozilo ešte v 18. storočí, potom žily vyschli a baníci prešli na pyrit a antimón — menej romantická ruda, zato jej bolo viac. Zámok začiatkom 18. storočia pustol. Čo ho vyprázdnilo, pramene jasne nehovoria a oplatí sa nesiahnuť po obvyklej odpovedi: Osmani toto mesto nikdy nedržali, hoci sa cez tento kraj v rokoch 1703 – 1711 prehnalo Rákociho povstanie. V roku 1718 dal Ján Pálfi spustnutú stavbu opraviť a Pálfiovci ju odvtedy držali v rukách.
