Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918 and Hlohovec spent the next twenty years in it. The change was felt first in language: schools and offices moved into Slovak, and the town's three old names — Frašták in speech, Freistadl in German, Galgóc in Hungarian — settled into the one that is on the signs today. A state grammar school opened in 1936. The Erdődys were still up on the terrace with the château, the park and the theatre, and it was the last generation of them that would be.Roku 1918 vzniklo Československo a Hlohovec v ňom prežil ďalších dvadsať rokov. Zmenu bolo najskôr počuť na jazyku: školy aj úrady prešli do slovenčiny a tri staré mená mesta — Frašták v reči, Freistadl po nemecky, Galgóc po maďarsky — ustúpili tomu, ktoré je dnes na tabuliach. Roku 1936 otvorili štátne gymnázium. Erdődyovci stále sedeli hore na terase, s kaštieľom, parkom aj divadlom, no bola to ich posledná generácia.
