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Founded: 18th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in Germany
Historical period: Emerging States (Germany)
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Gusow Castle is located in Gusow-Platkow, Brandenburg. First mentioned in 1353, it was owned over the centuries by several noble families, including the von Barfuß, von Derfflinger, von der Marwitz, and later the Schönburg family. General Georg von Derfflinger acquired the estate in 1649, and major renovations were undertaken from 1750 onward, including the creation of a baroque garden and later a neo-Gothic redesign between 1870–73.
The castle became a summer and hunting residence for the Schönburgs, visited at times by Prussian kings. It once featured works by sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the estate included a distillery, brickyard, and sugar factory.
After WWII, the castle served various public purposes—war shelter, grain storage, kindergarten, and community center. Severely damaged in 1945, it passed to the municipality in 1948. Renovation efforts began in the 1960s, but after German reunification, the building stood empty until it was sold to a private owner in 1992.
Today, Gusow Castle is privately owned, not open to the public, and in visible disrepair. The once-grand castle park is now heavily neglected and overgrown.
Radimlja is a stećak (monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina) necropolis located near Stolac. The necropolis is one of the most valuable monuments of the mediaeval period in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The majority of its stećak tombstones date from the 1480s through the 16th century, as evidenced by the epitaph on one of the tombstones. This was the period when the family Miloradović-Stjepanović from genus Hrabren lived in the settlement located on near hill Ošanići. At the time the location was known as Batnoge, and the creation of the necropolis coincides with the rise of this noble family.
The necropolis includes 133 stećci. When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period in 1882, it ran through the necropolis and destroyed at least 15-20 tombstones.