Editing Eger (section)

===Mongol invasion===

[[File:Eger castle (by Pudelek) 01.JPG|thumb|left|200px|The stone fortress was built at that time]]
This development was blocked for a short time by the [[First Mongol invasion of Hungary|Mongol invasion in 1241]], when the town was ransacked and burned down during the episcopacy of [[Cletus Bél]].

After the withdrawal of the [[Mongols]], Eger began to flourish all over again. [[Lampert Hont-Pázmány (bishop)|Lampert]], the bishop of Eger, received a permit from [[Béla IV]] for building a stone fortress. So the nearly destroyed town revived and reached the peak of its medieval development in the 14th and 15th centuries. During this period the forests which spread to the limits of the town were cleared for the most part, and vines were planted in their place. More and more town-houses were built in the settlement. Roads were constructed among which the ones in the inner town were narrow and twisting but those leading to the northern mining towns were wider. The various surrounding settlements such as [[Almagyar]] and [[Czigléd]] were built up along with Eger.