The ban of Croatia Ivan Dra�kovi? (or Draskovich) (1550�1613) was from Trako�?an.
Trako�?an was built in the 13th century within Croatia's northwestern fortification system, as a rather small observation fortress for monitoring the road from Ptuj to Bednja Valley.
According to a legend, Trako�?an was named after another fortification (arx Thacorum) that was alleged to have stood in the same spot back in antiquity. Another source claims that it was named after the knights of Drachenstein who were in control of the region in early Middle Ages.
The toponym was first mentioned in written records in 1334. It is not known who its owners were in the first years of its existence. As of the end of the 14th century, it was owned by the Counts of Celje, who were in charge of the entire Zagorje County. The family soon became extinct, and Trako�?an shared the fate of their other burgs and estates that were divided and kept changing owners. In these divisions, Trako�?an was, as a whole, first owned by an army leader by the name of Jan Vitovac, then by Ivani� Korvin, who gave it to his deputy warden Ivan Gyulay. The family kept the castle throughout three generations, and became extinct in 1566, after which the ownership was taken over by the state.
King Maximilian gave the estate to Juraj Dra�kovi? (1525�1587) for services rendered, first personally, and then as family heritage. This was how, in 1584, the Dra�kovi? family finally came into possession of Trako�?an.
In the second half of the 18th century, when the building of manors was flourishing in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Trako�?an was abandoned. Neglected, it fell quickly into dilapidation. It was only towards the middle of the 19th century that the family became interested once again in its estate, in the Romanticist spirit of return to nature and family traditions. In this spirit, the deputy marshal Juraj V. Dra�kovi? turned the castle into a residential manor-house, while the surrounding park
