Schloss Hecklingen, Renaissance and Baroque castle in Hecklingen, Germany

Schloss Hecklingen is a castle in Hecklingen, Saxony-Anhalt, consisting of a Renaissance wing with a small tower and a Baroque wing with eleven axes and a festival hall. The entrance portal with a projecting staircase is on the courtyard side, and the side wing has a stair tower, a bay window and Renaissance windows facing the courtyard.

Construction began in 1617 when Wolf-Friedrich von Trotha built on foundations that included parts of an earlier Benedictine monastery documented in records from the 1100s. The building remained in the von Trotha family's hands until 1945, when its purpose shifted entirely.

The Festsaal, called the Spiegelsaal, was built in 1721 under Thilo Lebrecht von Trotha on the first floor of the Baroque wing. Its ceiling paintings and stucco ornament survive, and since 2015 the hall has been rented for events. The name refers to mirrors, though the sources record only the painted and stuccoed decoration.

The property operates as a hotel offering rooms and event spaces for weddings, conferences, and celebrations within its historic walls. Since it functions as an active business, check in advance which areas are open to visitors on any given day.

The castle stands on a filled-in medieval castle site listed as an archaeological monument (no. 428310105), separate from the building's own monument status (no. 094 10120). The 1617 Renaissance wing was built incorporating a monastery building, and the eleven-axis Baroque wing with its hall followed in 1721 under Thilo Lebrecht von Trotha.