1672 Taken by rebels, retaken in NovemberDobyli ho povstalci, v novembri ho vzali späť

After the Wesselényi conspiracy against the Habsburgs was uncovered, the government moved hard against Protestant nobles across Upper Hungary. In 1672 Gašpar Pika, the commander of the castle guard here, led a rising of Protestant gentry, soldiers and peasants that seized Orava Castle itself and held much of the county for a few weeks. Imperial troops under General Sporck retook it at the end of November 1672. Pika was impaled on a stake at Oravský Podzámok, in the village directly below these walls; village judges who had joined him were executed with him, and many prisoners were sent to the galleys. Slovak accounts differ on the exact day and on how many died — the story was told from memory for a long time before anyone wrote it down carefully, and where accounts disagree, the honest thing is to say so.Keď sa prevalilo Vešeléniho sprisahanie proti Habsburgovcom, vláda tvrdo zakročila proti evanjelickej šľachte v celom Hornom Uhorsku. V roku 1672 viedol Gašpar Pika, veliteľ tunajšej hradnej stráže, povstanie evanjelických zemanov, vojakov a sedliakov, ktoré sa zmocnilo samotného Oravského hradu a na niekoľko týždňov ovládlo veľkú časť stolice. Cisárske vojská generála Sporcka ho koncom novembra 1672 dobyli späť. Piku napichli na kôl v Oravskom Podzámku, v dedine priamo pod týmito múrmi; richtárov, ktorí sa k nemu pridali, popravili s ním a mnohých zajatcov poslali na galeje. Slovenské podania sa rozchádzajú v presnom dni aj v počte obetí — príbeh sa dlho rozprával z pamäti, kým ho niekto starostlivo zapísal, a keď sa pramene nezhodujú, poctivé je to povedať.