Swobnica Castle, Medieval fortress in Swobnica, Poland

Swobnica Castle is a three-winged brick complex on a square plan about 50 m on each side, arranged around an inner courtyard. Its tower rises 31 m, square at the base and circular above. The medieval walls reached 15 to 18 m, and the main building has 1,961 m² of usable floor space.

The fortress was built after 1377 by the Knights Hospitallers with permission from dukes Świętobor I and Bogusław VII to defend regional borders. In the 18th century it was transformed into a hunting lodge, reflecting new ideas about how nobility lived.

The name Wildenbruch first appears in a 1345 document about a dispute between the town of Bahn and the Knights Hospitaller. After the order was expelled in 1648, the castle passed to Queen Christina of Sweden, who gave it to chancellor Johan Adler Salvius. From 1680 it belonged to Electress Dorothea, who incorporated it into the Wildenbruch-Schwedt estate.

The castle stands outside the village centre, reached by a cobbled avenue lined with linden and chestnut trees. The grounds are uneven and partly overgrown, and the lake is largely dried out. The main building received a new roof in 2012 and the medieval tower was restored in 2013.

During World War II the Szczecin museums stored collections at the castle, and after 1945 capitals from Kołbacz, Nowogard and Szadzko were found here, along with Renaissance tomb slabs bearing the portraits of Philipp I and Barnim IX with his wife.