1626 Seven daughters turn an estate into a companySedem dcér spraví z panstva firmu

Juraj Thurzo had seven daughters and no surviving son, and in 1626 those daughters met at Lietava Castle and founded the Orava Composessorate (Oravský komposesorát) — a body of co-heirs that owned and ran the whole Orava estate together, with its own directors, accounts and staff. It is an unusual arrangement and it lasted three centuries. It also explains this village: a shareholding estate needs an office, a treasury, stores, stables and housing for the people who keep the books, and all of that stood on the strip of flat ground between the cliff and the river. The castle above was the symbol; the working capital of Orava was the street below it.Juraj Turzo mal sedem dcér a nijakého žijúceho syna a v roku 1626 sa tie dcéry zišli na Lietavskom hrade a založili Oravský komposesorát — spoločenstvo spoludedičov, ktoré celé oravské panstvo vlastnilo a spravovalo spoločne, s vlastným riaditeľstvom, účtami a zamestnancami. Je to nezvyčajné usporiadanie a vydržalo tri storočia. Vysvetľuje aj túto dedinu: podielnické panstvo potrebuje kanceláriu, pokladnicu, sklady, maštale a byty pre ľudí, čo vedú knihy — a to všetko stálo na páse rovnej pôdy medzi skalou a riekou. Hrad hore bol symbol; skutočným hlavným mestom Oravy bola ulica pod ním.