In the middle of the fifteenth century Hussite troops held this corner of Záhorie — Czech soldiers of the church-reform movement that had grown out of Jan Hus's teaching, and that by then was fighting on the Hungarian side of the border as well. They built a fortified camp in the neighbouring village of Gajary, a few fields away, which tells you how that war was fought: not siege after siege, but small armies living off flat, open country. In 1488 King Matthias Corvinus granted Veľké Leváre to a nobleman named Johannes Haubitz de Pasthwytz, one of a long series of transfers from one owner to the next. The village never had a castle of its own; what the records follow here is who owned the place, not who defended it.V polovici 15. storočia ovládli tento kút Záhoria husiti — českí bojovníci cirkevnej reformy, ktorá vyrástla z učenia Jána Husa a vtedy už zasahovala aj na uhorskú stranu hraníc. Opevnený tábor si postavili v susedných Gajaroch, pár chotárov odtiaľto, a na tom vidieť, ako sa tá vojna viedla: nie obliehanie za obliehaním, ale menšie vojská, ktoré sa živili z rovinatého, otvoreného kraja. Roku 1488 daroval kráľ Matej Korvín Veľké Leváre šľachticovi menom Johannes Haubitz de Pasthwytz — jeden z dlhého radu prevodov z ruky do ruky. Vlastný hrad tu nikdy nestál; pramene sledujú, kto obec vlastnil, nie kto ju bránil.
