Angern Castle

As early as 1341, Archbishop Otto, Landgrave of Hesse, of Magdeburg, had a castle with an artificial moat built in Angern, which is believed to have been erected on the foundations of a predecessor building.

However, the moated castle changed owners several times. In 1343, it belonged to a Gerlof von Brunhorcz. From 1363, the lord of the castle, Lüdecke von Grieben, held Angern as a fief. He was not a member of the prominent noble family of the same name, von Grieben, but a vassal thereof and, as was customary at the time, had adopted their name. In 1370, Lüdecke von Grieben and two sons of Knight Jakob von Eichendorf were enfeoffed with the locality of Angern. From 1373, Knight Gebhard von Alvensleben, also known as von Klötzen, was the feudal lord in Angern. He gained notoriety primarily through raids on Magdeburg merchants. In 1382, Magdeburg citizens besieged the castle in Angern until Gebhard von Alvensleben ceded the castle to them for 400 marks of silver. Friedrich Graf von Hoym and Archbishop of Magdeburg demanded Angern Castle as a fief of the archdiocese. But it was not until 1384 that Angern Castle was handed over by the city of Magdeburg to the new Archbishop Albrecht IV for a payment of 900 marks of silver.

The castle was severely damaged, so the Archbishop had to have the house renovated. In the following period, the castle was repeatedly sold as collateral and thus changed owners. After the renovation, the Archbishop pledged the house Angern to Hermann von Standorf, from whom it was redeemed again in 1391. In 1392, Angern was pledged to Henning von Rengerslage for an amount of 800 Bohemian gulden. Archbishop Günter II Graf von Schwarzburg redeemed the house from the brothers Albrecht and Cuno von Rengerslage in 1403. In 1411, the house went as collateral to Sander von Hemmersdorf (or Alexander von Hermstorf). In 1424, he passed the house on for a payment of 400 Rhenish gulden to Margarethe and Dietrich von Czerwst (also Diether von Zerbst) and the brothers Knight Bernhard (also Barndt) and Werner von der Schulenburg.

In 1448, Angern Castle was finally enfeoffed to the brothers Busso, Bernd, and Matthias (also Matthies) von der Schulenburg by a letter of enfeoffment from Archbishop Friedrich III Graf von Bleichingen "as a true male fief." The von Zerbst family was compensated with money, and Archbishop Friedrich of Magdeburg received larger sums in advance for his constructions in Giebichenstein and Wolmirstedt. Despite numerous divisions of inheritance within the von der Schulenburg family, the castle and estate of Angern remained in the family's possession for almost five hundred years until 1947.

From 1949 to 1990, the castle housed an agricultural vocational school. In 1997, the von der Schulenburg family reacquired the castle.