The Hussite wars in Bohemia sent armed bands across this border for decades, and Holíč's growth stalled: the raids came down the very road the customs post lived on. Skalica, eight kilometres up the road, was seized and held by Hussite garrisons and left half empty when they went. Border towns pay for other people's wars, and the fifteenth century is when Holíč learned it. The castle survived; the town did not prosper.Husitské vojny v Čechách posielali cez túto hranicu ozbrojené oddiely celé desaťročia a rast Holíča sa zastavil: nájazdy prichádzali práve po tej ceste, z ktorej colnica žila. Skalicu osem kilometrov odtiaľto husitské posádky obsadili a držali, a keď odišli, zostala spolovice prázdna. Pohraničné mestá platia za cudzie vojny a v pätnástom storočí sa to Holíč naučil. Hrad to prežil, mesto neprekvitalo.
