From 1524 the Tematín estate was in Thurzo hands, and after them it passed through a long line of magnate families by inheritance, mortgage and exchange. At Moravany, at the end of the sixteenth century, several separate medieval buildings were pulled together by one rebuilding into a single Renaissance house — the shape the manor still has, with a high arcaded attic along the roofline, a corner tower and two oriels. It was a house, not a fortress, which says something about who felt safe on this terrace. The confidence was not always justified: Vrbové, a dozen kilometres west, and Hlohovec, downstream, were both wrecked by Ottoman raiders in 1599.Od roku 1524 patrilo temetínske panstvo Thurzovcom a po nich prechádzalo dedením, zálohami a výmenami cez dlhý rad magnátskych rodov. V Moravanoch spojila koncom 16. storočia jedna prestavba niekoľko samostatných stredovekých stavieb do jedného renesančného domu — do podoby, akú má kaštieľ dodnes: s vysokou arkádovou atikou po celej streche, s nárožnou vežou a dvoma arkiermi. Bol to dom, nie pevnosť, a to čosi hovorí o tom, kto sa na tejto terase cítil bezpečne. Tá istota nebola vždy namieste: Vrbové, tucet kilometrov na západ, aj Hlohovec nižšie po prúde v roku 1599 vyplienili osmanskí nájazdníci.
