During the archaeological explorations here, some prehistoric earthenware and chipped flint implements representing the culture of Zselíz were found, as well as crock from the Bronze and Iron Ages, which suggested an already permanently settled population.
According to Simon Kézai's Illustrated Chronicle, Olivér and Ratold knights, from the Italian province of Apulia, came to the country at the end of the 11th century where they received several estates.
They sold and purchased their estates, and waged a constant fight for the watermills placed on the stream with its abundantly waters.
The road cutting through the village connected the Great Hungarian Plain, and thus the salt-mines in Transylvania beyond, with the part of Transdanubia with the help the ferry at Vác.
Scientific research has not yet confirmed the hypothesis according to which the earlier original Hungarian population remained in a relatively large number in Rátót.
Due to the mixing by way of marriages, Rátót also started to be dominated by the Slovaks, although the majority of the population considered themselves as Hungarians, but lived and spoke in a Slovakian way.
Its altars and main internal objects belong to the highest level Hungarian baroque wood sculpture.
Farming on this large estate was profitable, and made it possible to create and permanently smarten an ornamental garden on 28 hectares here.
Next to the large estate and the manor-house, the lands of the farmers of Vácrátót further continued to break up into smaller plots: in 1941, only seventy-five percent of its total population could earn a living from agriculture, fifteen percent of them found jobs outside the village – mainly in the industrial plants of Vác and Újpest.
The land structure did not change significantly even after the distribution of the large estate, and the Communist transformation of the country after the war.
The imposed economic policy of the fifties, with its limitations put on private farming, actually, forced the population to escape from the village.