Kuckenburg (desert)

Kuckenburg is a desert between Sandersleben and Wiederstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1852 the square was still referred to as the Kuckenburg ruin on the measuring table . The castle ruins of the Kuckenburg (1000 m west of the S-part of Sandersleben) fell victim to a quarry.

The name Kuckenburg may have been derived from:

1. from the cuckoo call (lat. Cuculus [onomatopoeia] cuculare): ahd. Gugguch / gugguck / guckgauch gugzet / peeps (calls); mhd. kukuk.

2. look (early hand, md./obd., Derived from children's language: call attention by shouting "cuckoo") = direct your eyes precisely on something, observe with tense attention, keep an eye out ( lookout )

3. In the sense of "protrude, become visible, jump in the eye", that is, with a passive character, often used when objects catch the observer's attention or protrude unexpectedly or conspicuously from a different area (neudt. Eye- catcher ). The boundary to 2. is not always sharply drawn.

Web links

• Abandoned castle ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

Coordinates: 51 ° 40'30.3 "  N , 11 ° 32'56.2"  E.