Stargard Castle

The keep was built ca. 1245 on a foundation of erratic boulders. In its lower parts, the walls are more than 4 m thick and have a circumference of 27 m. The entry is 9 m above ground and was accessed via a roofed wooden stairway (today a simple one out of metal). The dungeon is 13 m below the entry, i.e. also below the courtyard level. Above the dungeon, there were formerly three tower rooms. The keep burnt out due to a stroke of lightning in 1647. Grand Duke George entrusted F. W. Buttel, a student of the Prussian classicist architect Schinkel, with restoring and remodeling it into a viewing tower from 1821 to 1823. The tower is 38 m in height, including its 9 m tall cap. Under favourable conditions, it offers views up to 30 km all around, even as far as the windmills of Woldegk. The tower was restored in 1966.

The large building complex (German: Krummes Haus) in the inner bailey traditionally housed the magistrate's offices. It burnt down completely on 18 December 1919, due to arson. It has remained a ruin ever since, although part of it received a tentative roof and floor for hosting cultural events in the 1990s.

The Chapel developed as a three-storey gatehouse in the 1240s. The gate was inserted into the inner bailey's walls, but clearly protrudes out of them. After 1280, a chapel was established, at first in the upper storeys. Finally, in 1520, the drawbridge was dismantled, the gateway and the middle window were connected and then bricked up, and the building was refurnished as a chapel. Sixty years later, it was expanded towards the inner courtyard. In the 17th century, it was used as a garage and barn. Only between 1758 and 1770, it was used again, this time as a temporary municipal church, after most of the town had burnt down. Afterwards, it was again used for storage. The building shows a large pointed-arched window (now mostly bricked-up) and two smaller round-arched windows, one on each side, as well as a gable with 18th century framework. Remnants of the gate structure can be seen in the lesenes and the black glazed, round-arched friezes.

This gate was originally a brick building with a chapel in the upper storey, constructed about 1250. The gate was reinforced in the 16th century and remodeled in the 17th. Since 1755, it is partially destroyed, only the façade remained. The gable is edged by a round arch and once consisted of a staggered group of three windows, that are now walled up. As with the upper gate, there are lesenes and round-arched friezes next to the gateway. The former drawbridge was replaced by a stone causeway in the 16th century.

The building was erected in the 13th century, with one its walls also serving as an outer wall of the inner bailey, including a guards' walkway. It served as the local mint for a long time. After it was used as a restaurant during World War II, it continued as a youth hostel during Socialist times. After comprehensive restoration work, it re-opened as a hotel and restaurant in 1999.