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Briest Manor was built in 1624 and rebuilt in 1839 after a fire. It is considered one of the last remaining aristocratic residences of its kind in Northern Germany.

The area is freely accessible.

Zerben Castle, also called Plotho Castle, is a manor house in Zerben in Saxony-Anhalt.

Fragment of a three-winged castle, built under Wolfgang von Plotho 1874-1879. Demolished in the 1960s, currently being gradually restored

A tower with striking features.

The two castles remained the residence of the Wagenührs von Arnim until the middle of the 20th century. At the end of the Second World War, the family fled from the Red Army in 1945. In the GDR, the “New Castle” was used as a retirement home. In 1996 it came into the possession of the city.

For exactly 600 years to the year, the Briest line of the von Bismarck family lived on their estate in the Altmark. In 1345, Nikolaus von Bismarck received the Briest and Burgstall estates as a fief from the Margrave of Brandenburg. In 1945 the family was expropriated and expelled from their property as part of the land reform. The current manor house was built in 1624 by Christoph von Bismarck and his wife Dorothea II von derschulenburg in the swamp landscape of Tangier and Elbe on the foundations of the old moated castle. After a fire in 1839, the damaged part of the building was restored by the family in the Renaissance style. Because it was one of the few mansions that were built during the Thirty Years' War. After 1945 and a demolition prevented by monument preservation, the manor house in Briest initially housed refugees and later socially disadvantaged families until the early 1990s. The rooms inside have been remodeled accordingly. However, the building complex, consisting of an elongated main building and a right-angled wing building as well as an octagonal stair tower on the courtyard side, has retained its Renaissance appearance. And not only this, the farm complex has also been largely preserved with a brewery, barns and a small church from 1599. Like the manor house, most of the buildings are built in strong red brick framework. The spacious landscape park, which was laid out as an English landscape garden in 1849 according to plans by the horticultural director Christian Schaumburg, the designer of the Georgengarten in Hanover-Herrenhausen, is also still there - although overgrown and with a pond that has been enlarged to form a swimming lake.

Zerben Castle, also called Plothosches Schloss, is a manor house in Zerben in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1847 a simple half-timbered house was converted into a palace complex following the characteristics of the Weser Renaissance. The manor owner Wolfgang von Plotho, inspired by the Leitzkau palace complex, had a three-wing ensemble built at great expense between 1874 and 1879. The one-storey complex, whose roof has typical Renaissance gables, is located on the edge of a park facing the Elbe and is therefore easily recognizable from the Elbe dike across the floodplain meadows. In 1948 parts of the palace were demolished by order of the Soviet military administration. After the municipality of Zerben became the owner in 1996, it was listed as a monument in 1998. Since 1999 efforts have been made to gradually return the property to its original form. The renovation was successfully completed in July 2011. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Zerben#:~:text=%EE%80%80Schloss%20Zerben%EE%80%81%2C%20auch%20Plothosches%20%EE%80%80Schloss% EE%80%81%20called%2C%20is%20a,1874%20and%201879%20onw%C3%A4nd%20build%20a%20triple%C3%BCglige%20ensemble%20.