Roseburg Château, Castle in Ballenstedt, Germany

Roseburg is a castle complex built in 1908 by Bernhard Sehring on a Muschelkalk ridge between Ballenstedt and Rieder. Its pale yellow tower with a dark, red-tiled roof rises behind lower wings; a stone facade with dark beams adjoins it, and a two-story wing with a red hipped roof connects to a section with a small rounded turret. A gravel courtyard lies between the wings.

A castle on a shell-limestone ridge by the old road to Goslar was recorded in 963 as Rudeloffsburg, a foundation of Margrave Gero given to the Gernrode convent. The site passed to Ballenstedt monastery in 1056 and later to the princes of Anhalt, who enfeoffed the counts of Regenstein with it. The village was last mentioned in 1563 and the ruin was struck from maps by 1801. Bernhard Sehring bought the ground in 1905 and built today's castle, completed in 1908.

The Roseburg is a purpose-built castle of 1908, not a medieval one; Bernhard Sehring gathered Romanesque, medieval and late-medieval elements into a private residence. Its park mixes an early 19th-century English garden with an early Baroque Italian layout, crossed by a 100-metre terraced water cascade and a lime avenue. Many park elements are Italian originals, among them an 11th-century Gothic fountain column from the Palazzo Malatesta in Rimini.

The site is open year-round as a non-profit limited company, and the water axis of the park has run again from April to October since July 2006. The terraced cascade is crossed by a linden avenue, so the grounds are best explored on foot along its main axis.

The park's 100-metre terraced water cascade is crossed by a lime-tree avenue and was restored to working order in July 2006, running from April to October. Its head is crowned by a lookout tower whose lower part holds a grotto intended as a mausoleum.