Around 1710, in the closing years of the Rákóczi uprising against the Habsburgs, imperial troops burned out Tematín Castle and it was never rebuilt. That is worth noticing, because Slovak villages very often say the Turks destroyed their castle when the truth is this one: it was wrecked by the emperor's own army after a rebellion. With the castle gone, estate life in this valley moved down onto the flat, into manor houses like the one at Moravany, which was given Baroque balconies and vaulting and, in the second half of the eighteenth century, an English landscape park. The village below it lived off a ferry across the Váh, vines and hops on the terraces, hemp linen weaving, a mill and a brick kiln.Okolo roku 1710, v posledných rokoch Rákócziho povstania proti Habsburgovcom, vypálili cisárske vojská hrad Tematín a ten už nikdy neobnovili. Stojí za to si to všimnúť: na Slovensku sa veľmi často hovorí, že hrad zničili Turci, hoci pravda býva presne takáto — zbúrala ho po povstaní vlastná cisárska armáda. Po zániku hradu sa život panstva presunul dolu do roviny, do kaštieľov, akým je ten v Moravanoch; dostal barokové balkóny, nové klenby a v druhej polovici 18. storočia aj anglický krajinársky park. Dedina pod ním žila z prievozu cez Váh, z viníc a chmeľníc na terasách, z tkania konopného plátna, z mlyna a z tehelne.
