Salder Castle

Construction of the castle began in 1608 under David Sachse, a ducal-Brunswick colonel and privy councillor, whose name gave the building the nickname “Sachsenschloss” (Sachse's Castle). After Sachse's death in 1613, the Saldern family reacquired the property. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle suffered damage from imperial troops in 1641 and 1642. In 1695, Hereditary Prince August Wilhelm of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel bought the castle and had it rebuilt and expanded according to plans by Hermann Korb, during which time the St. Maria Magdalena castle church was also built nearby. After the duke's death in 1731, the castle was inhabited by his widow, later used as a ducal domain, and from 1795, it became the seat of the Lichtenberg/Salder district court.