Tátika-vár
In Tátika-vár once stood a medieval private fortress on the Keszthelyi Plateau, rising on a basalt peak 413 metres high near Zalaszántó. Its name is believed to come from Tádenka or Tadeuka, the landholder who—before the Mongol invasion—had an earlier stronghold built that is not the same as the better-known ruins. The decisive turn came in 1248, when King Béla IV ordered the “Alsó-Tátika” castle on the Várhegy’s projecting steep spur to be confiscated from the Tátika kindred after a violent attack on Erek. The injured Veszprém bishopric, led by Zlaudus of the Kaplony kindred, received the site—but Zlaudus judged it insufficiently secure and commissioned a new stone residence on the summit, where he died in 1262. …
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