Gerswalde Castle
| Gerswalde Castle | ||
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 Gerswalde Castle - New Kemenate (2006) |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1256 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Gerswalde | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 10 ′ 10.5 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 45.5" E | |
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The Burg Gerswalde was a Wasserburg . The ruin is located in the municipality of Gerswalde in the district of Uckermark . Extensive parts of the medieval complex still exist today, some of which were restored in later centuries.
history
The castle, first mentioned in a document in 1256, is likely to have been built between 1239 and 1250 by the Margraves of Brandenburg . It was supposed to protect the Ascanian areas of the Uckermark against Pomerania and Mecklenburg . There is evidence that several margraves of Brandenburg stayed at the castle between 1271 and 1311. The Neue Kemenate is one of the few residential towers with a high entrance that has been preserved in Brandenburg .
After the Ascanians died out, the castle's owners changed frequently. In 1447 the Lords of Holtzendorff came into possession of the castle. In 1463 the lords of Arnim received the castle with the lordship as a fief . It becomes one of the ancestral seats of the von Arnim family. In 1637 the castle was largely destroyed in the 30 Years War .
In place of the former outer bailey , the von Arnim family built Gerswalde Castle in 1724 , the so-called “White Court”, which got its present form around 1900. In 1929 the property was sold.
gallery
Ruin of the keep (2006)
Bastei on the east side (2006)
Interior of the bastion (2006)
Gable front of a building (2006)
literature
- Gerd Heinrich (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 10: Berlin and Brandenburg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 311). Kröner, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-520-31101-1 .
- Jo Lüdemann: Castle Guide Brandenburg. Fair women, dark knights, haunted treasures . Trescher, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89794-006-X .
