Salgo Castle

Salgo Castle is also the Hungarian stronghold near to Salgotarjan, one hundred twenty km from Budapest. In the start it become simplest a rectangular-fashioned stone tower. The human beings referred to as it ’Salgo’ meaning ’shine’, but it’s nevertheless no longer clean whether the name ’Salgo’ turned into the call of the volcanic peak, or they started out to name the place by means of this call after the tower became erected. This fortified tower changed into built with the aid of the Kacsics clan, who had been the lords around those hills in the 13th century. According to certain attention the constructing of this tower related to the Mongol invasion 1241-1242, because all over Hungary only the fortified towns or castles could resist the Tartar’s navy.

The sieges of fortresses were now not the Tatar’s cup of tea. After the invasion the king, IV. Bela ordered and supported the fortifications of manor homes and towns and the constructing of new strongholds. Salgo began as a small tower 7,five x 9,5 m and a small fort-yard. It is notion that the cellar of the tower became used as a jail. The water-supply become a tough one on this volcanic rock, consequently within the lower degree of the height, beneath the tower, they constructed a water-collecting cistern. This rock-fort had cistern, a massive and a smaller one. The water became important, no longer most effective for ingesting but also fireplace combating.