Neudeck was the ancestral country estate of the Hindenburg family near Rosenberg, East Prussia. It was located in West Prussia until 1919 when, under the border readjustment following World War I, the remnants of West Prussia were absorbed by East Prussia. The property had gone into debt and was in need of great repair when the German government and contributions from Big Business, gave Paul von Hindenburg clear title to Neudeck in 1927, for his services in World War I, and for his sevices as Reich President. Hindenburg titled the deed to Neudeck in the name of his son, Oskar von Hindenburg. According to his political enemies, this was ostensibly done, to avoid payment of inheritance taxes. Hindenburg died there on August 2, 1934.
After World War II the area became Polish, and is now named Ogrodzieniec.
It should not be confused with Neudeck in Upper Silesia, the location of the castle of Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830-1916) and his son, Guido Otto (1888-1959). The town passed to Polish sovereignty in 1919 as Koslowagora, and the Henckel von Donnersmarck estate here was confiscated upon the coming of Communist rule in 1945.
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