first written mention 1333 The castle enters the documentsHrad vstupuje do listín

Krásna Hôrka appears in writing for the first time in 1333, by which point it was already standing. The first castle here was small and hard: a four-sided tower and a residential palace inside one ring of wall, set to watch the medieval road through the mining country of the Slovak Ore Mountains. Notice what the date actually tells you — it is a fact about a document that happened to survive, not about when the first stone was laid. From this rock the Bebeks ruled the Krásna Hôrka estates for more than three hundred years, and the villages below existed to feed the castle, cart for it and fight for it.Krásna Hôrka sa v písomnostiach objavuje po prvý raz v roku 1333 a vtedy už dávno stála. Prvý hrad bol malý a tvrdý: hranolová veža a obytný palác v jednom opevnení, postavené tak, aby strážili stredovekú cestu cez banícke kraje Slovenského rudohoria. Všimnime si, čo taký dátum vlastne hovorí — je to údaj o listine, ktorá sa náhodou zachovala, nie o tom, kedy položili prvý kameň. Z tohto brala spravovali Bebekovci krásnohorské panstvo vyše tristo rokov a dediny pod ním existovali na to, aby hrad živili, vozili preň a bojovali zaň.