SLOVENSKÁ L'UPČA / Zólyomlipcse / Liptsch MARKET TOWN lies below Slovenská L'upča castle. Its first charter of immunity, issued by King Charles Robert I of Anjou in 1340, granted the same privileges to the town that had been obtained by settlements founded by German immigrants. These privileges were acknowledged by the landlords of the adjacent estates. Although the town became a fiscal domain in 1670, it was permitted to continue to pay its duties in cash instead of paying in kind. The L'upča stream with a paper mill and two other mills and the Hron river flow around the settlement. Slovenská L'upča had 1200 Slovak inhabitants in the mid-19th century.

Bibliography: Fényes Elek, Jurkovich 1929

SLOVENSKÁ L'UPČA / Zólyomlipcse / Liptsch CASTLE and its three irregular towers rise on a triangular foundation on a rock plateau above the market town of Slovenská L'upča. For a long time a royal stronghold, the 13th-century castle was given by King Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619-1637) to György Széchy in 1621. One of his daughters, Mária (1610-1679), also known as "the Venus of Murány," got married to the captain of Fülek castle, Count Ferenc Wesselényi, later Count Palatine (Hung. nádor; Lat. comes palatinus) of Hungary. After the disclosure of the plot he hatched in 1670, the castle was escheated to the Crown on grounds of ejection and became inhabited by the royal stewards in charge of the surrounding estate. The castle consists of two parts: the upper part was a residence and the lower castle was the actual stronghold with 5 bastions, each fortified by cannons. The upper castle was Mária Széchy's favourite place of residence and she had its three fine apartments built.

Bibliography: Divald, Jurkovich 1929, Zólyomlipcse