 The first buildings on today's castle area were erected between the 13th and 15th century and inhabited by a Schultheiss family.At the end of the 15th century the noble family "von Röbel" built a manor house on the area, which was bought by the merchant Adam Ebersbach on July 2, 1736.In 1817 it was bought by the Prussian Friedrich Scharnweber, a close employee of Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg, in 1890 it was sold to the banker Henry Suermondt and parceled out.