Heuckewalde Castle
| Heuckewalde Castle | ||
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 Heuckewalde Castle (2012) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Heuckewalde moated castle | |
| Creation time : | from approx. 1156 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Place: | Gutenborn - Heuckewalde | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 57 '56.1 " N , 12 ° 9' 9.9" E | |
| Height: | 285 m above sea level NN | |
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The Heuckewalde Castle , which consists of a Wasserburg emerged, located in the district Heuckewalde the community Gutenborn in Burgenlandkreis i Saxony-Anhalt .
The original moated castle was probably built around 1156, shortly after the place was first mentioned, in the possession of the Posa Monastery in Zeitz in 1152, beginning with the keep as a fort-like castle complex. Completed in the 12th century fortified tower with its later supplemented attachment (42 meters high) has the previous fixing character of the castle as surrounded by marshes and water castle.
The castle is mentioned for the first time in 1318 in a comparison of the property of Heuckewalde between Landgrave Friedrich I (Friedrich the bitten) and Bishop Heinrich von Naumburg-Zeitz .
After the Naumburg bishops had used the castle as a hunting and summer residence in the 14th century , it was sold, used as a residential complex and converted into an existing residential palace by the owner Bernhard von Pflugk and his son Georg at the beginning of the 18th century. In contrast, the complex has been known as a castle since at least 1650.
In 1945, through the expropriation of the last owners, the von Herzenberg family, the municipality became a legal entity and used the castle as a school, kindergarten, crèche, school kitchen, municipal office and residential complex. After the fall of the Wall (1990) and the previous users moved out, the castle stood empty and began to deteriorate. In 2003 the friends' association "Schloss Heuckewalde" eV was founded to maintain and use the castle. The castle has been privately owned again since February 2011.
The idea of uncovering the moat around the former moated castle, which had been filled in for a long time, was later abandoned.