Slovakia · Partial ruin
Ľubovňa Castle
Ľubovňa Castle is a medieval hilltop castle in Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia, built in the late 13th century and first mentioned in 1311. It served as a royal administrative seat and later housed important state treasures; today the complex is partly ruined and partly rebuilt and contains museum displays in conserved rooms.
First raised
1400
Its prime
1412
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1412
What Ľubovňa Castle looked like in its prime.
A medieval stone castle complex crowning a wooded hill above the Poprad River valley, its compact massing of interconnected stone ranges and defensive curtain walls visible from the town below. Roofed domestic ranges sit within enclosing masonry walls; an inner ward contains a small stone chapel. At its prime the castle appears complete and roofed, with continuous stone walls, intact habitable ranges and enclosed courtyards, built of local grey-brown masonry.
Its story
The story of Ľubovňa Castle.
Ľubovňa Castle was built in the late 13th century, when the territory belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, and is first mentioned in writing in 1311. Its moment on the European stage came in 1412, when King Sigismund of Hungary and King Władysław Jagiellon of Poland met at the castle and signed a pact of friendship and peace; in this period it often hosted members of the Hungarian royal family.
From 1408 the castle was acquired by Emeric Perényi, personal chancellor of Sigismund of Luxembourg, whose great estate took in the towns of Stará Ľubovňa and Podolínec. Though originally built to guard the northern border of Hungary, for 360 years the castle served as the seat of the administrators of the Spiš territory held by Poland, and during the Swedish Deluge the Polish crown jewels were kept here.
The castle is now partly a ruin and partly rebuilt. The conserved rooms house a museum of period furniture and weaponry, some retaining barrel and Prussian vaults, and an underground torture chamber survives; the castle chapel displays copies of the Polish crown jewels, and below the hill lies the open-air Museum of Folk Architecture of the Spiš Region.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1412.
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Clans who held Ľubovňa Castle.
The families that held Ľubovňa Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Perényi
Acquired from 1408 by Emeric Perényi, chancellor to Sigismund of Luxembourg, with Stará Ľubovňa and Podolínec.
