Borsod

Borsod stands beside the Bódva, below the earthworks of the castle that gave its name to the county. Built with timber and earth at the beginning of the Hungarian kingdom, the fortress was an early seat of the royal county administration. Its church and the settlement beneath the ramparts served the people attached to the castle.

By 1334 the old stronghold was described simply as an earthwork, and the village had passed into private hands. In the sixteenth century Ferenc Bebek turned the site into a fortified residence. Fighting in the Ottoman wars destroyed the village in 1582, although it was inhabited again by 1595. The remains of the earlier ramparts and the later residence preserve the changing fortunes of a once important county centre.