Walbeck Castle (Hettstedt)
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Walbeck Castle is a listed castle complex in Walbeck in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Saxony-Anhalt . The castle was built in 1765 on the foundations of a monastery that was consecrated in 997.
history
Walbeck was first mentioned in a document in 959 as Walbiki. According to the records of the historian Cyriacus Spangenberg (1528–1604) it was a stately Vorwerk . The kings Heinrich I. Otto I. , Otto II. And Otto III. used it as a royal court .
The abbess Mathilde von Quedlinburg received Walbeck through a donation in 985 with the condition that a monastery of the Benedictine order be built. This was consecrated in 997 by Bishop Arnulf von Halberstadt . The monastery complex was badly damaged during the Peasants' War in 1525.
After the monastery was secularized in 1546 , it went to the Counts of Mansfeld as an estate . They mortgaged it and sold it. After several changes of ownership, it was acquired by the Hanoverian mining captain Friedrich Casimir zu Eltz around 1670 , whose son Philipp Adam bequeathed it to his nephew Johann Clamer von dem Bussche in 1728 .
As the seat of the property, which was registered as a manor in 1745 , today's castle was built in 1765 on the foundation walls of the monastery. At the same time, a church was built on the site. Only cloisters remained of the former monastery in part of the castle. A subsequent Bussche had the park redesigned and an extensive orchard laid out. For the responsible fruit gardener, a Dutch officer, he had the Planteur house built. At the end of the 19th century, District Administrator Bartel bought the property. He built large barns on the estate. In 1945 he was expropriated.
After the Second World War , Walbeck Castle became a state-owned estate from 1945 , on which large stable complexes were built. During this time Walbeck became an agricultural training company and was known for its horse breeding. There was an agricultural school with boarding school in the castle .
After the fall of the Wall in 1989 , the property was privatized by the Treuhandanstalt and changed hands several times during a considerable renovation backlog. In 2011, a private person acquired the system, who installed photovoltaic systems on the roofs on a large scale . With the help of the income from the generation of electricity, the property or the castle, which operates under the umbrella of the Sun Castle, is being renovated .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 9.8 ″ E