Historic Estates
Castles, Manor Estates and Country Seats of the von Gerlach Family
For generations, the von Gerlach family owned significant manor estates and country seats in Pomerania and the Neumark. These properties – today Polish territory – shaped the family's way of life and identity for more than a century and a half.
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Schloss Parsow
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Ancestral seat of the family's Pomeranian branch, acquired in 1779 by Privy Finance Councillor Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerlach. The palace housed a fideicommiss library of 4,000 volumes on Pomeranian history – one of the finest private collections in Hinterpommern.
Chronicle
- 1172
First recorded mention in a charter of Duke Casimir I of Pomerania.
- 1558
The owner family von Parsow dies out with Lorenz von Parsow; the estate changes hands.
- 1765
Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerlach acquires the neighbouring estate of Schwemmin – the first Gerlach property in Hinterpommern.
- 1779
Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerlach, Privy Finance Councillor, acquires Parsow.
- 1782
Construction of the baroque central section.
- 1809
In the will of Ludwig Wilhelm August von Gerlach, Parsow and Schwemmin are designated a fideicommiss. The first holder becomes his son Carl Heinrich von Gerlach (1783–1860).
- ~1860
Bogislaw von Gerlach adds a north wing in the Tudor style.
- 1910
Construction of the south wing.
- 1922
Comprehensive renovation unifies the entire ensemble.
- 1945
Occupation by the Red Army. The fideicommiss library is largely destroyed. Carl August von Gerlach-Parsow (1883–1945) is abducted and killed.
All estates are today located on Polish territory and passed out of family ownership as a result of the expulsions of 1945.