Neues Castle Hummelshain

The New Hunting Lodge Hummelshain is a castle in the municipality of Hummelshain in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia. It was built between 1880 and 1885 in the Neo-Renaissance style.

In 1880, the construction of a new, more representative hunting lodge in Hummelshain, today's New Hunting Lodge Hummelshain, was planned by the imperial court architects Ernst von Ihne and Paul Stegmüller on behalf of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Altenburg. This castle, built between 1880 and 1885, was the last new castle construction in Thuringia. After the abdication of the Duke, the Vogel-Verlag acquired the castle in 1922. It served the Pößneck company as a residential and guesthouse. At the end of World War II, it was used as a hospital by the Reimahg company. From 1947-1992, the castle served as a children's and youth home as well as a youth work camp.

The approximately 48-meter-high tower of the castle, with its surrounding arcaded walkway and four corner towers, is visible from afar. The representative rooms on the ground and upper floors (including the ballroom on the ground floor) are used for hosting festivities.

According to its support association, the New Castle is in a state of decay. Only emergency securing measures have been carried out since the castle was sold by the Thuringian State Development Company to a Leipzig company in 1998. In 2011, the support association addressed an open letter to the state parliament members from the Saale-Holzland district.