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Of the huge fortifications of the Győr castle, only the castle bastion surrounding Chapter Hill and the Sforza half-bastion protecting the former Vienna Gate have survived. The lapidary of the Xántus János Museum was furnished in the dungeons and courtyards of the latter. Three late-Renaissance-style gates, demolished in the middle of the 19th century, once opened on the walls of the castle. The most representative was the three-span Vienna Gate (1568) reminiscent of the ancient triumphal arches, which was created following one of the castle gate designs of the model book of the highly influential Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio. The gate was once adorned with the two-headed eagle's imperial coat of arms, the Hungarian royal coat of arms with a cut field, and the Czech royal coat of arms with lions, as well as II. A plaque with the inscription listing the titles of Emperor-King King. Their fragments, as well as a fragment of the Doric cornice of the Vizi-kapu (1567) can be seen under the arches of the dungeon.
The key fortress was occupied by the Turks in 1594 after a long siege. But they could only rejoice for their new conquest for a short time: on the night of March 28 to 29, 1598, the imperial troops took the castle back during a raid-like attack. The Christian army led by Adolf von Schwarzenberg and Miklós Pálffy blew up the Fehérvár Gate with firecrackers: the people of Győr have been guarding the destroyed gate wing as a relic of liberation for centuries.
With the development of military architecture, it became necessary to modernize the fortifications again by the middle of the 17th century. According to the plans of military engineer F. Wymes, under the command of Count Montecuccoli, this took place in the years between 1661 and 1664: a double chain of external vanguards was built into the widened castle moat.
With the end of the Turkish wars, by the beginning of the 18th century, Győr Castle lost its military importance. During the Napoleonic Wars, the castle briefly re-entered the castle: the French troops occupied it after a few days of siege after the Battle of Kismegyer, and then blew up the walls when they retreated (1809). In the decades that followed, the city also demolished the remaining walls.
Since 1957, the castle's courtyard and dungeon has hosted a permanent exhibition organized from the Roman and early modern quarry and the brick collection of József Horváth.
