Neuhausen Castle

The earliest mention of Neuhausen dates back to 1147, when the site was destroyed during a crusade by Margrave Albrecht the Bear against the Wends. In 1318, it was referred to as “novum castrum prope Perleberg” and from 1334 belonged to the Perleberg region, when it was pledged by the Margrave to Heinrich von Schwerin. Just eleven years later, in 1345, Margrave Ludwig I granted Neuhausen to the knight Nicolaus von Lobeck. The von Rohr family took possession in 1396 but sold half of it to Georg von Winterfeld in 1618. In 1712, the von Winterfeld family also acquired the remaining share from the von Rohr family. Under Johann Gebhard von Winterfeld in 1738, the manor house was converted into a Baroque three-wing complex, incorporating parts of the old castle, such as vaulted cellars and the chapel. Further renovations and modernizations took place in 1903. After the death of the last Winterfeld, the von Busse family inherited the estate in 1944 but was dispossessed and expelled in 1945. The estate served as a supply depot for the Red Army and housed war refugees.