Heuckewalde Castle, Water castle in Gutenborn, Germany

Heuckewalde Castle is a water castle in Gutenborn with a four-wing structure in trapezoidal form and a 39-meter sandstone tower. The fortress is surrounded by water moats and displays both Romanesque and baroque architectural elements.

The site was probably begun around 1156 as a moated castle, shortly after Heuckewalde's first mention in 1152 as property of Posa Monastery in Zeitz. The castle itself is first documented in 1318, in a settlement over Heuckewalde between Landgrave Frederick I and Bishop Henry of Naumburg-Zeitz. In the 14th century the Naumburg bishops used it as a hunting and pleasure palace; it was later sold and converted into a residential palace around 1700 by Bernhard von Pflugk and his son Georg.

The name Heuckewalde is first documented in 1152, when the village belonged to Posa Monastery in Zeitz; the castle itself appears in a 1318 deed settling ownership between Landgrave Frederick I and Bishop Henry of Naumburg-Zeitz. From the 14th century the Naumburg bishops used it as a hunting and pleasure palace, and it was already called a Schloss by 1650. Later owners included the von Wolframsdorf family, from whom the architect Otto von Wolframsdorf came, born at the castle.

The castle is in private ownership again since February 2011, so visits depend on the owners' arrangements rather than fixed opening hours. The moat around the former water castle was never re-excavated, so the water ring visible today is not restored. The 42-metre keep with its later top can be seen from the village. The site lies in Heuckewalde, part of Gutenborn in the Burgenlandkreis.

The keep, completed in the 12th century, rises 42 metres with its later-added top section, and it is the oldest surviving part of the complex. Its height recalls the site's origin as a castle-like fortification begun around 1156, when the place was surrounded by swamps and water.