In 1803 the whole complex burned. The medieval castle was left as a ruin and never roofed again; the manor house was repaired and the Chamber went on using it until 1850. After that the building was given a very ordinary second life: a prison and the district court were installed in it. That is the plain, unromantic way most Slovak castles actually ended — not stormed, but outlived, and then converted into whatever the state needed next. In the neighbouring village of Dovalovo, now part of the town, a classicist Lutheran church was built between 1851 and 1857, and its altarpiece of 1857 is by Peter Michal Bohúň, the painter of the Slovak national awakening, whose gallery is in Liptovský Mikuláš down the road.V roku 1803 celý areál vyhorel. Stredoveký hrad ostal zrúcaninou a strechu už nikdy nedostal; kaštieľ opravili a Komora ho používala do roku 1850. Potom dostala budova celkom všedný druhý život: zriadili v nej väznicu a okresný súd. Takto — nijako romanticky — sa väčšina slovenských hradov naozaj skončila: nie dobytím, ale prežitím vlastnej užitočnosti a premenou na to, čo štát práve potreboval. V susednom Dovalove, dnes časti mesta, postavili v rokoch 1851 – 1857 klasicistický evanjelický kostol a jeho oltárny obraz z roku 1857 je dielom Petra Michala Bohúňa, maliara slovenského národného obrodenia, ktorého galéria je o kúsok ďalej v Liptovskom Mikuláši.
