Weteritz Castle

Weteritz Castle was built in 1831 for the von Alvensleben family. Peter Joseph Lenné designed the landscape park in 1830-31. In 1857, the entire estate was sold to the ducal-Anhaltian official Carl Heinrich Theodor Roth, whose family managed the property until its forced expropriation by the communists in 1945. Carl Heinrich Roth was awarded the Order of a Knight 1st Class of the ducal-Anhaltian House Order "Albrecht the Bear" for the "cultivation of the fields". His son, Hubert Roth, was a recognized dendrologist. In 1934, Weteritz was visited as part of the annual meeting of the German Dendrological Society and was mentioned with praise in the conference proceedings. Even today, plants imported by Roth, such as hemlock firs from North America, can be seen in the park.

Today, Weteritz Castle with its Lenné Park is visibly decaying. The park receives hardly any visible care. The castle, which has already been renovated once, is also decaying. In 2009, the Roth family made claims to parts of the inventory that were in the castle and in family ownership until 1945. These were discovered in the town hall of Gardelegen. So far, the outcome of the negotiations on how to deal with the demonstrably unpurchased items is open.