Jühnde Castle

Jühnde Castle is a listed building complex in Jühnde. It has been inhabited and managed by the Barons Grote since 1664.

A Jühnde estate was first mentioned in a document in 960 by Otto I. A castle, first mentioned in 1290, was located on the old military road from Münden to Göttingen. It belonged to Widekindus dictus de June (1250–1297). The von June family died out in 1463, and Jühnde fell to the von Bovenden family, and shortly thereafter to the von Adelebsen family. At that time, the castle apparently developed into a robber baron's castle, from which merchants were ambushed. In 1484, it was therefore conquered and taken by the people of Göttingen and rebuilt from 1489. The 29-meter-high castle tower, called Moshus, also dates from this period. Its two lower floors have groin vaults.

During the Thirty Years' War, the castle burned down.

In 1664, Imperial Baron Otto Grote zu Schauen (1637–1693), privy councillor to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg, took over the estate and rebuilt the castle between 1668 and 1671. A descendant, Otto Ulrich Freiherr Grote (1757–1821), after his retirement from Hanoverian state service in 1805, had the remarkable landscape park laid out in the spirit of Romanticism and had the castle converted into a residential palace between 1806 and 1807.

In 1951, the archive of the writer Heinrich Sohnrey (1859–1948), who was born here, was established in the castle tower.