the present-day 18th century hohne manor is partly built on the walls of the old castle that the young robber baron from gifhorn, hendrik von veltheim, is believed to have destroyed on 11 july 1372 during the lüneburg succession conflict. areas of cobbles and large stone fragments of old foundations can still be found under the present-day surface of the land (were embankments levelled out here?), which suggests that a small castle originally stood here. as at hesleburg castle near heeßel, and the castles of depenau and dachtmissen on the aue in flotwedel, the terrain was then wetter than today and inaccessible from grethegau to the north.