Dragon castle

Dračí hrádok is a ruin on the Úboč hill above the valley of the Stupavský brook, located 2 km east of the village of Borinka at an altitude of 370 m above sea level. m. The castle was built in the 13th century, during the period when the owners of the royal castle on Pajštún were the counts of Svätý Jur and Pezinok. The royal origin is indicated by the similarity of the tower at Dračský hrádek with the towers at other royal castles (Plavecký hrad, Beckov, Pajštún). The castle complex consists of two parts. The first part is an elongated ridge (15 meters wide and 15 meters long), separated from the surrounding terrain by a low rampart. The second ridge is 20 meters wide and 112 meters long, separated from the first ditch. The central prismatic tower was built 17 meters wide and 6 meters deep, dug into the rock. Modest remnants of the masonry settlement of the entrance bridge have been preserved on the outer part of the moat. Today, only a part of the preserved wall of the entrance bridge is visible.