Gerswalde Castle

Gerswalde Castle was a moated castle. The ruin is located in the municipality of Gerswalde in the Uckermark district. Extensive parts of the medieval complex are still preserved today, some of which were restored in later centuries.

First mentioned in a document in 1256, the castle was probably built between 1239 and 1250 by the Margraves of Brandenburg. It was intended to protect the Ascanian territories of the Uckermark against Pomerania and Mecklenburg. Between 1271 and 1311, several Margraves of Brandenburg demonstrably stayed at the castle.

After the extinction of the Ascanians, the ownership of the castle 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 became one of the ancestral seats of the Lords of Arnim. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was largely destroyed in 1637.

In place of the former outer bailey, the Lords of Arnim built a small castle around 1900, the so-called "White Court".