Schloss Bodenburg, Medieval castle in Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany

Schloss Bodenburg is a castle in Bad Salzdetfurth featuring a prominent tower and a pond on its western side. The grounds include an English-style landscape park with specimen trees planted throughout the open areas.

Bodenburg is first documented in 1108, when Meinfried von Bodenburg held the castle as a fief of the Counts of Winzenburg. In the mid-14th century the Bishop of Hildesheim gave it to the von Steinberg family, and from 1361 the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg were its overlords, making Bodenburg a Brunswick exclave until 1941. In 1905 it passed by marriage to the Barons von Cramm, who still manage it.

The name Bullenstall refers to the cattle barn built in 1857 on the former outer bailey; since 1998 it has housed the Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth's art building. Opposite stands Hans-Oiseau Kalkmann's 2007 sculptor's studio with Corten steel facades, designed by his son Jens Kalkmann. The baroque garden of Ernst von Steinberg became an English landscape garden around 1830 under Philipp von Steinberg and Franz Christian Schaumburg.

The castle building remains private and closed to the public, but the surrounding park is open daily until sunset for visitors to explore. Plan to spend time walking through the grounds and viewing the building from outside.

The Bullenstall on the former outer bailey was built in 1857 as a cattle shed; its name means "bull stable". Its huge arched roof was termed a Sattelschwingdach by Hildesheim monument curator Martin Thumm, and the structure is a rare "Pseudo-Bohlendach". Since 1998 it has housed the Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth's art building.