Schloss, Castle and park in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück, Germany

Schloss Neudeck is a two-storey palace in Neudeck, a district of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in southern Brandenburg, standing a few hundred metres from the Schwarze Elster on an old river arm. Its main wing was built in 1521; the east gable ends in late Gothic ogee tracery and thin pinnacles, a round corner tower sits at the south-east corner, and a polygonal stair tower with lantern, bell-shaped hood and weather vane stands by the north entrance. The south facade has a four-axis central projection facing a terrace with an outdoor staircase. The plaster is weathered, with brick showing on the gable.

A knight's seat at Neudeck was first documented in 1474; Lupold von Brandenstein, who held the estate from 1504, built the two-storey main wing in 1521. The von Brandensteins kept it until 1615, and the Thirty Years' War left it badly damaged before it passed to the von Schleinitz family, who extended it eastward and added the round corner tower. From 1711 Johann Friedrich von Patow gave the medieval building its Baroque forms. After 1945 a police school occupied the site until 1999; the state sold it in 2002 and it has stood empty and decaying since.

The Schleinitz family, who held Neudeck from 1615, had a patron's box built in 1675 in the Wiederau village church, to which Neudeck belonged; it rests on a twisted corner column and survives today. The village and estate counted 120 inhabitants in 1913, and from 1927 the textile artist Ella Lettre ran her workshop in the palace until its sale in 1931.

The site is owned by the state of Brandenburg and has stood unused since the police school closed in 1999; the Elbe-Elster district recommended closing individual areas to visitors because of the poor structural condition. The buildings are separated from the village of Neudeck by an old arm of the Schwarze Elster, a few hundred metres from the present river. The Schloss is in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district of southern Brandenburg.

The palace stands on an old arm of the Schwarze Elster, cut off from the rest of Neudeck by the former river channel. The water ditch that once surrounded the medieval knight's seat has disappeared, but the site's island-like position between the old arm and the present river course can still be read in the terrain.