After the Hungarian army was destroyed at Mohács in 1526 the kingdom broke into three, and its western third — including this corner — went to the Habsburgs. The Ottoman frontier settled far to the south-east and Skalica was never a front-line fortress, but raiding parties reached much further than the frontier did: in 1529 Turkish raiders came up this far and plundered Strážnice, on the Moravian bank a short ride away. Skalica stayed behind the walls Louis I had ordered, and was not taken. It is worth saying plainly, because half the towns in Slovakia are told they were 'destroyed by the Turks': this one was not.Po tom, čo bolo uhorské vojsko v roku 1526 pri Moháči zničené, sa kráľovstvo rozpadlo na tri časti a jeho západná tretina — aj tento kút — pripadla Habsburgovcom. Osmanská hranica sa ustálila ďaleko na juhovýchode a Skalica nikdy nebola frontovou pevnosťou, lenže nájazdy siahali oveľa ďalej než hranica: v roku 1529 sa turecké oddiely dostali až sem a vyplienili Strážnicu na moravskom brehu, na skok odtiaľto. Skalica zostala za hradbami, ktoré dal postaviť Ľudovít I., a dobytá nebola. Hovorme to naplno, lebo o polovici slovenských miest sa rozpráva, že ich „zničili Turci“: toto mesto medzi ne nepatrí.
