Haneburg Castle

The origins of Haneburg date back to 1570, when Claes Frese, then bailiff of Leerort, Leer, Hinte, and Uttum, commissioned its construction as a manor house on the Blinke. Later, the property passed to the Hane family, who gave the castle its name. Joest Hane, a ducal bailiff of Stickhausen, extended the original transverse building in 1621 with a short wing in the Dutch Renaissance style, which included an archway. An inscription above this archway still commemorates this alteration. In 1671, Joest Hane's son Didrich Arend Hane completed the 1621 extension, as remembered by an inscription above the main entrance. The city of Leer acquired Haneburg in 1908.