Tematin Castle
Tematín is a castle ruin in western Slovakia.
The Tematín castle, originally built in the second half of the 13th century, was fundamentally reconstructed by the Thurzo family, owners of the castle from 1524. Last owned by Miklós Bercsényi, general of the anti-Habsburg insurrection army. The extinction of the castle after a 1710 siege was linked up to the suppression of the anti-Habsburg uprising.
A cache of axe-shaped iron coins from the Great Moravian period was found in the Hrádok area. Traces of a Great Moravian fortified settlement found in the village were destroyed by later building activities.
