Segesd and its suburbs have been a densely populated place ever since prehistoric times. During the Roman dominion and after the Original Settlement, it was a place where important roads crossed. The chief and tribe leader settled near Segesd in the first half of the 10th century. After the Hungarian constitution, Segesd belonged to the Episcopate of Veszprém. Overseers of the king and later the queen lived in the centre. The royal 'Comitatus of Segesd' of King Béla IV was first mentioned in a charter from 1245, or rather the land of the overseer and his name Mihály, the son of Jákó.

The Memorial Museum of Csesztve is the only memorial place established for Madách. The writer of the Tragedy of man lived in the mansion house of the Nógrádian village between 1844 and 1853. A good number of his poems, letters and confessions were written from Csesztve. He spent the first happy years of his married life here after 1845. He took active part in the political life of the county in the last years of the reform era and in the war for independence in 1848/49

After a 4-month period of day and night work the museum was opened at a new place, in a new form, and under a new name: Police History Museum. The opening ceremony was accompanied by the speeches of dr. Zsolt Visy (Ministry of National Cultural Inheritage) and dr. Péter Orbán (National Police Headquarters).

The first wife of Walter Boldizsár, Angeli Mária, and himself built the house in 1896. Its walls are 80 cms wide made of 'Hofstella' taken from the end of the yard. Its layout is kitchen, living room, clean room, chamber and an open porch. The roof is made of tile while the facade is ornamented. Two windows looked on the street and a wooden carved door from the yellow wall.

One of the outstanding baroque buildings of Hungary is the Száraz-Rudnyánszky mansion, which bears the characteristics of the Grassalkovich type mansion houses. The building is divided by columns, pillars and chambers formed according to the demands of the age for rich light-shade effects.

The Museum of Körmend founded in 1965 is located in the main building of the Batthyány-Strattmann castle built in the 17th century. The castle was built on walls of an old castle of the 15th century. Wall paintings from the 17-18th centuries ornament its facade.