Leubnitz Castle

Leubnitz was settled around the year 1200 as a Waldhufendorf (forest-strip village) during the second phase of the Ostkolonisation (eastern colonization). The founders built an early German moated castle. On the foundations of this former complex, the castle that still exists today was built in 1870, making it the most prominent building in the village.

Initially, the village was probably under the possession of the Vögte von Weida. Already in the 15th century, the Wettins took possession of the land.

In April 1945, the village was occupied by the US Army. They occupied the castle and set up a collection camp for prisoners of war on a cow pasture behind the manor. After the Potsdam Conference, the village was handed over to the Soviet occupation zone, and the US Army withdrew its forces from West Saxony to Bavaria.

In September 1945, the land reform began in Germany; the local factories and businesses, as well as the castle and manor, were expropriated on behalf of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany and became public property. In 1947, the municipal administration moved into the castle.