CastleSonnewalde

Sonnewalde Castle (Ruin)

Public library
Museum

The Sonnewalde Ruin, once a significant castle complex, rises in the town of the same name in the Elbe-Elster district of Brandenburg. Its history stretches far back, bearing witness to a turbulent past that ranges from Wendish origins to expropriation in the 20th century. Today, the renovated ruin houses a library and a museum, serving as a central attraction in the region.

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Sonnewalde was first mentioned in a sales document in 1255, between Johannes von Sunnenwalde and Dobrilugk Monastery. It is presumed that the site, as a Wendish marsh castle, is considerably older, and that German settlement and its development into a burgwardium occurred well before this initial mention. The family von Sunnenwalde sold the lordship between 1318 and 1328 to the de Ileburg family. In 1481, Hans von Minckwitz acquired Sonnewalde from the Saxon Duke Albrecht, which led to conflicts with the Kingdom of Bohemia, which claimed Lusatia, and thus Sonnewalde, as its territory.

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