The origins of the settlement date back to the 11th century and come from a Benedictine abbey.
The first city name comes from the year 1388 by King Sigismund. During this time, the Lackfis family castle was also expanded as an estate on the shore of the large Öreg lake. Between 1397 and 1409, King Sigismund converted the castle into a royal palace. King Matthias redesigned the castle in 1467-1472 in the Renaissance style.
During the Turkish wars, the newly entrenched castle was an important link in the Habsburg defense system and was destroyed by the Ottomans. After the Turks were expelled (1727), the castle ruins came into the possession of the Esterházy family, who, under the direction of Jakob Fellner, expanded Tata as the center of their large estates and built great achievements of their time until the second half of the 18th century . There is the English Park, which still surrounds the second largest of the many lakes, Lake Cseke. The Kuny Domokos Megyei Múzeum has been in the partially reconstructed castle since 1954.
During this time, Tata also gained its baroque appearance with works by the court architect Jakob Fellner, such as the Count's castle, the guest castle in the park, the Piarist monastery, the parish church or the wooden clock tower, which has survived to this day without a nail for attachment has.
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