The Knight Who Bought Alt-Torgelow for 3000 Rhine Guilders

In 1454, Duke Wartislaw IX enfeoffed the knight Bernd Mukerviz with the Vogtei and Schlossgut Alt-Torgelow. The land was granted for 3000 Rhine Guilders. Because the robber knight family Zacharias Hase lived in Kufstein at the time, the area was distinguished as Alt-Torgelow and Neu-Torgelow.

During the 15th century, the Muckerwitz family built a castle as a residence. They built upon a previous castro that had been expanded into an Ascanian hunting lodge. The family line ended with Bernd von Muckerwitz in 1575, after which the knightly property became the domain of the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast.

The settlement was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. Today, only a ruin of the castle remains, consisting of fieldstones and bricks. In the neighborhood, the Castrum Turglowe open-air stage stands nearby along with a protected villa containing a mourning room and tourist information.

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