It was built using the remains of a Roman fortification situated not on the site of today's building but in the adjoining orchard.

In this village on the right bank of the Mureş River, on the top of the hill they built a small fort already in Roman times which was destroyed during the migrations.

The earliest remaining document from 1228 gives its name as castrum Wecheu, when King Andrew II of Hungary took it from Simon Kacsics and gave it to Denis Tomaj.

The ancestors of the Bánffy de Losoncz noble family inherited from them and held it for one and a half centuries.

The sequence began with Ferenc Kendi, one of the leading figures of the time, then Sigismund Báthory left it to his uncle, Bocskai István.

At the end of World War II the local population completely ransacked the building, all the valuables were taken.

Old documents show that the former citadel (13th century) was protected by moats, walls and towers positioned below the plateau on which the castle was built.