1944 · 1 April 1945 Partisans in the Považský InovecPartizáni v Považskom Inovci

The ruin took no part in this war, but the hill it stands on did. After the Slovak National Uprising broke out on 29 August 1944 the wooded Považský Inovec became partisan ground, and the people of Podhradie, the village at the foot of the castle, strongly supported the partisans working in these mountains — many of them joined the fighting outright, at a time when helping a partisan was punished by death and German units burned whole villages elsewhere in Slovakia for it. Topoľčany was taken on 1 April 1945 by soldiers of the First Romanian Army, fighting against Germany after Romania changed sides.Zrúcanina sa tejto vojny nezúčastnila, ale kopec, na ktorom stojí, áno. Po vypuknutí Slovenského národného povstania 29. augusta 1944 sa zalesnený Považský Inovec stal partizánskym terénom a obyvatelia Podhradia, dediny pod hradom, partizánov pôsobiacich v týchto horách výrazne podporovali — mnohí sa priamo zapojili do bojov, a to v čase, keď sa za pomoc partizánom trestalo smrťou a nemecké jednotky za ňu inde na Slovensku vypaľovali celé dediny. Topoľčany oslobodili 1. apríla 1945 vojaci 1. rumunskej armády, ktorá po zmene strany bojovala proti Nemecku.