Schloss und Park Dieskau

Kabelsketal, Germany, Germany

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Schloss und Park Dieskau in Kabelsketal, Germany, is a Renaissance castle built between 1565 and 1625 by Hieronymus von Dieskau on the site of a medieval water castle along the Reide River, later modified in Baroque style and extensively renovated in Neo-Renaissance fashion after 1878.

The irregular four-wing structure surrounds a rectangular courtyard, featuring a polygonal tower, half-timbered upper stories, a preserved late-medieval plank room, and decorative portals. Surrounded by an expansive English-style landscape park from 1778 inspired by Wörlitz, it includes ponds, waterways from the Reidebach stream, mature trees, winding paths, a Chinese Tea House, and statues of Apollo and Flora. 

Though a protected cultural heritage site near Halle, recent accounts note the castle's deteriorating condition with limited interior access.