In 1708, during the uprising of Francis II Rákóczi, the Kuruc — the insurgent army fighting the Habsburgs — badly damaged the manor house. This is worth stopping on. A great many Slovak ruins are locally said to have been destroyed by the Turks, when in fact they were wrecked in the Hungarian uprisings against Vienna, or pulled down afterwards on imperial orders, or simply burned by accident. Dubnica's damage is documented and Rákóczi's men did it. The repair — a full Baroque rebuilding carried out between 1719 and 1730 — is what gave the manor the shape you see today.V roku 1708, počas povstania Františka II. Rákociho, kuruci – povstalecké vojsko bojujúce proti Habsburgovcom – kaštieľ ťažko poškodili. Pri tom sa oplatí zastaviť. O mnohých slovenských zrúcaninách sa doma hovorí, že ich zničili Turci, hoci v skutočnosti ich rozbili uhorské povstania proti Viedni, alebo ich dal potom zbúrať sám cisár, alebo jednoducho zhoreli. V Dubnici je škoda doložená a spôsobili ju Rákociho vojaci. Oprava – veľká baroková prestavba v rokoch 1719 – 1730 – dala kaštieľu podobu, ktorú vidíme dnes.
