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Bischofrode water tower

Since 1949, the Bornstedt local festival has taken place every year in the ruins.

Bornstedt Castle, also known as Schweinsburg, stands high on the Hornburger Sattel – a ridge on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains. The impressive, thirty-meter-high keep of the castle ruins can be seen from far away. The former Carolingian rampart was probably built in the 8th century. The "Brunstediburg" was first mentioned in documents around 880 in the Hersfeld tithe register. It consisted of a stone core castle with a keep and an outer castle, once surrounded by a ring wall and a moat. In 1115, Emperor Henry V used Bornstedt Castle as a station for his troops in the battles at Welfesholz during the Saxon Wars. From 1301 to 1780, the complex was owned by the Counts of Mansfeld, and from 1502 it was one of their residences. During the Thirty Years' War, Bornstedt Castle lost importance and began to decay.

The baroque gravestones in the churchyard and the churchyard wall also belong to the church of St. Pankratius as monuments.

At the beginning of the 20th century, none other than Empress Auguste Viktoria took on the task of restoring the St. Pankratius Church in Bornstedt, which was built around 1450, and had a neo-Gothic nave added to the medieval west tower. This is probably why the church is so large and, thanks to the imperial commitment, it was given a remarkable interior: a Renaissance altar with Art Nouveau motifs, carvings on the pews, paintings on the barrel vault and on the gallery.

In this telephone booth, which has been converted into a free "library", you can stock up on reading material or make books you have finished reading available to others.

Six transformer towers in the Mansfeld region, of which there were once hundreds, are now safe to exist. Not because they are still important for the energy supply, but because they provide shelter for rare animal species. Owls have settled in the old transformer tower in Bornstedt, while bats live elsewhere. In addition, the tower on the main street is such a striking part of the townscape that it is listed as a cultural monument in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Electricity once reached the top of the towers via overhead lines at 20,000 volts, and the transformers in the tower reduced the voltage to 400 volts.

The war memorial in front of the house at Hauptstraße 1 is intended to commemorate those who died in the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/1871. Additional stones were later added for those who died in the First and Second World Wars.