The remains of the Castle can be visited
CastleAngermünde - Greiffenberg
Greiffenberg Castle
Greiffenberg Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a hill in the Welse Valley on the northern edge of the Greiffenberg district of the city of Angermünde (Luchdamm 10-15) in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg.
The small, castellan-like castle was built in 1224. In 1261, the castle was mentioned as "civitas Grifenberg" with a hospital as the ancestral seat of the Greiffenberg family.
The possession was confirmed in 1349 by the Duke of Pomerania, and in 1354 the castle again belonged to the Margraviate of Brandenburg. It was conquered by the Pomeranians in 1426 and belonged to the Margraviate of Brandenburg again in 1446.
From 1473 to 1803, the castle was owned by the von Sparr family. In the interim, the castle suffered destruction during the Thirty Years' War. From 1850, the castle was owned by the Counts of Redern.
Description+
The square brick castle complex on an artificially raised hill still shows the 12-meter-high stump of the three-story round keep on a base area of 9 by 9 meters with a wall thickness of 1.4 meters, remnants of an oversized gatehouse, and the fieldstone foundations of the residential buildings and the curtain wall, as well as remnants of ramparts and moats.
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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Roland Neubert, Halle (Saale)
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Location: 53.0912, 13.9645