Langeleben Castle

Langeleben was first documented as a forest estate in 1160. A castle there was mentioned in 1258. The settlement of Langeleben developed by 1328 and had a priest around 1400. Between the 13th and 15th centuries, the castle was owned by a knightly family of Langeleben and was also enfeoffed to the Counts of der Asseburg. After decay in the 16th century, a reconstruction took place in 1555 by Heinrich von Veltheim, who restored the complex by 1609. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was destroyed by fire in 1626. Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig took over the ruins in 1661, and his son August Wilhelm had a hunting lodge built starting in 1689, which was used by the Dukes of Braunschweig and Prussian kings in the 18th century. In the mid-18th century, a renewed decline began, and the hunting lodge was demolished in 1830.