Eilenburg Castle

The complex was probably built in the 9th century as a Slavic fortification. In the 10th century, it became the center of the "Burgward Ilburg" and around the turn of the millennium came into the possession of the Wettins, who gave it the name for the noble family of Eulenburg. At the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries, the castle underwent an expansion with a curtain wall and several brick towers. In the late Middle Ages, Eilenburg changed hands several times and was destroyed in the Merseburg Bishop's Feud in 1386. After its reconstruction by Margrave Wilhelm I, it served as a princely administrative seat. In the 16th century, Martin Luther stayed here.