Landskron Castle

Landskron Castle was built between 1576 and 1579 by Ulrich II von Schwerin, son of the Pomeranian Grand Master Ulrich von Schwerin. The name "Landskron" is said to have displeased the Pomeranian Duke, but a renaming apparently did not occur, as Ulrich II himself used the name "Landeskron" on a stone tablet from 1586. After Ulrich II's death, the castle passed to his son Georg Ernst von Schwerin. His son Ulrich Wigand von Schwerin died childless in 1651, whereupon the castle passed through his sister Anna to her husband, the Swedish councilor von Anrieppe. His daughter brought the castle into her marriage with Jürgen von Pentz. Due to high debts, the complex fell into disrepair, which was lamented in a 1661 visitation report on the castle chapel. Although the castle still seemed inhabited around 1668, it was abandoned by the von Pentz family no later than 1683.