Wanzleben Castle
| Wanzleben Castle | |
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 Wanzleben Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 968 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Preserved reconstructed |
| Standing position : | Nobles, clericals |
| Place: | Wanzleben |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 3 '53.3 " N , 11 ° 26' 36.6" E |
The Burg Wanzleben is a lowland castle on the northern outskirts of the town Wanzleben at the former military road from Magdeburg to Hadmersleben . It is a station on the Romanesque Road .
The castle was laid out as a round castle with double moats and ramparts. The Romanesque keep from the 13th century is 30 meters high. Extensions took place in 1583. In the 18th and 19th centuries the house and farm buildings were rebuilt and expanded.
It was first mentioned in 968. It has been administered by the Gandersheim Abbey since the 12th century . In 1373 the Lords of Wanzleben sold it to the Archbishop of Magdeburg. From 1680 to 1945 it was a Brandenburg-Prussian domain .
Until 1945, the castle and the land belonging to it were managed by a royal domain tenant . After the formation of agricultural production cooperatives (LPG), the administration of an LPG was located in the castle.
The castle was acquired by the descendants of the last tenant in the 1990s and was reconstructed from 1996. After completing the major renovations in 2003, the facility will be used as a residential building, hotel, conference center and restaurant.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony-Anhalt I , arr. by Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer. - Munich; Berlin, Dt. Art publ. 2002. - ISBN 3-422-03069-7
Web links
- Detailed history of Wanzleben Castle
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun