Castle in Wapnica

o the east of the town there was a knight's castle founded at the end of the 13th century on an island 80 m away from the western shore of the lake, probably in the place of the former stronghold. It was supposed to be a watchtower of the border with the New March. The castle was built by the Guntersbergs as vassals of the Duke of Pomerania. In 1338, the Margraves of Brandenburg captured and destroyed the castle, and then allowed the Guntersbergs to rebuild it on the condition that they would simultaneously demolish their own castle in Bytów on the Ina.

The rebuilt castle in Wapnica consisted of a proper brick castle located on a five-meter, perhaps artificially raised, hill with a regular outline and a lower, also regular, outer bailey. So it was a two-part assumption. The castle was surrounded by a rampart and a moat, and access led through a bridge from the west bank, where a town was established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1478, Elector of Brandenburg captured and destroyed the castle. In 1840, a road on a dike crossed the lake through the castle island. Only traces of the perimeter walls remained on the castle hill.