First mentioned in a document in 1251, the castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Schwerin, except for a few interruptions. In the following centuries the Pomeranian dukes were guests several times. It was not until the late Renaissance (1568-1612) that a building was erected which represents the core of the present castle: a two-storey building on a rectangular ground plan with the typical Renaissance blind gables and horizontal cornices. The castle is one of the most important Renaissance buildings in Western Pomerania. Badly damaged during the Thirty Years’ War, the building underwent numerous reconstructions in the following centuries. The simple baroque manor house was turned into a respectable residential castle, which remained in its function until 1945. After the Second World War and nationalisation, the building became increasingly dilapidated, which could only be stopped in 1995. Since then, the community and the Förderverein Schloss Stolpe e.V. have endeavoured to put the estate to a multi-faceted cultural use.

Castle 9 – 17406 Stolpe on Usedom