Derneburg Castle with its pagoda roof is the symbol of Derneburg and can be seen from afar. It looks back on a nearly thousand-year history. In the 12th century, the former fortified castle became the property of Margrave Hermann von Winzenburg and his brother. By expropriation it came into the possession of the Diocese of Hildesheim and served for almost seven hundred years as a monastery of various Christian orders. After it was closed at the beginning of the 19th century, succeeded as Donation King George III. in the possession of the count Ernst Friedrich Herbert to Münster. His son Georg Herbert zu Münster commissioned around the middle of the 19th century the famous Hanoverian court architect Georg Friedrich Ludwig Laves with the transformation of the former monastery to the castle. After the plans of Laves also the extensive landscape garden after English model originated. In 1950, the Minster sold a large part of the property to the state of Lower Saxony. 24 years later, the artist Georg Baselitz acquired the castle and used it for 32 years as a residence and studio and sold it in 2006 to the American art collector Andrew Hall. Derneburg Castle has since been extensively renovated and restored and transformed into a private museum. The Hall Art Foundation and Hall Collection are among the world's most important collections of contemporary art, with more than 5,500 works by leading artists such as Baselitz, Beuys, Immendorf, Kiefer, Lüpertz, Nitsch, Penck, West, American and English artists such as André, Artschwager , Eisenman, Fischl, Golub, Gormley, Morley, Ruscha, Schnabel and Warhol. The museum in the castle Derneburg is a must for art lovers, which has no equal. In addition to its US venues, Reading Vermont and MASS MoCA in North Adams Massachusetts, Derneburg is the largest exhibition venue of the Hall Art Foundation. Group tours are possible with advance notice.