Emperor Charles VI — Charles III as King of Hungary — ordered the fortress razed, and the work was done in 1724–25. The reason given was blunt: a fortress that strong was a ready-made base for the next rebellion. Remember this whenever you hear that some Slovak castle was 'destroyed by the Turks'. Nové Zámky survived the Ottomans; what it did not survive was its own government. The six-pointed outline still shows in the street plan of the centre, and that plan is all there is left of it.Cisár Karol VI. — ako uhorský kráľ Karol III. — nariadil pevnosť zbúrať a v rokoch 1724 – 1725 ju rozobrali. Dôvod povedali priamo: taká silná pevnosť je hotovou základňou pre ďalšie povstanie. Spomeňte si na to zakaždým, keď niekto povie, že ten či onen slovenský hrad „zničili Turci“. Nové Zámky Osmanov prežili; neprežili vlastnú vládu. Šesťcípy pôdorys dodnes presvitá cez plán ulíc v centre a práve ten plán je jediné, čo z pevnosti zostalo.
