Čeklís Castle

Nowadays only a part of the perimeter wall, about 32 m long and situated on the edge of the ridge, has been preserved from the castle above ground level.

Rufus was at some point forced to sell his property to Matthew III Csák, after whose death the castle belonged to king Charles I of Hungary who returned it to its original owner in exchange for a strategically more important estate.

[5] The castle was originally built on an important, strategic place but in a poor defensive position, on the edge of an undulated terrain higher.

A 5 m wide relief arch is visible in the wall, barrel-vaulted and exposed to a height of 140 cm above the current terrain.

The thickness of the masonry is 200 cm and consists of stone and bricks, joined by hard lime mortar of unsorted river sand.