Savor with all your senses Our family-led four star hotel offers culinary richness and attractive arrangements for your discovery tour along Sa- xony’s Wine Route. Only a few minutes walking distance away from the hotel you can find the vineyard of Saxon master vintner Klaus Zimmerling – his expertise and our GLORY. NEW IN SPLENDOR OLD SACHSEN. SCHLOESSERLAND cuisine merge in one of Saxony’s most beautiful castle Dresden-Pillnitz Castle Hotel complexes into a unique experience. Schloss Hotel Dresden-Pillnitz August-Böckstiegel-Straße 10 SCHLOESSERLAND SACHSEN. Fireplace restaurant with gourmet kitchen 01326 Dresden OLD SPLENDOR IN NEW GLORY. Bistro with regional specialties Phone +49(0)351 2614-0 Hotel-owned confectioner’s shop [email protected] Bus service – Elbe River Steamboat jetty www.schlosshotel-pillnitz.de Old Splendor in New Glory. Herzberg Żary Saxony-Anhalt Finsterwalde Hartenfels Castle Spremberg Fascination Semperoper Delitzsch Torgau Brandenburg Senftenberg Baroque Castle Delitzsch 87 2 Halle 184 Elsterwerda A 9 115 CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN (Saale) 182 156 96 Poland 6 PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR OF STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN 107 Saxony 97 101 A13 6 Riesa 87 Leipzig 2 A38 A14 Moritzburg Castle, Moritzburg Little Buch A 4 Pheasant Castle Rammenau Görlitz A72 Monastery Meissen Baroque Castle Bautzen Ortenburg Colditz Albrechtsburg Castle Castle Castle Mildenstein Radebeul 6 6 Castle Meissen Radeberg 98 Naumburg 101 175 Döbeln Wackerbarth Dresden Castle (Saale) 95 178 Altzella Monastery Park A 4 Stolpen Gnandstein Nossen Castle Pillnitz Castle Rochlitz Kriebstein Dresden Residential Castle, Castle Zeitz Castle Castle Castle and Park Altenburg Dresden Fortress, The Dresden Dresden-Pillnitz Zwinger, The Great Garden Castle Hotel Freudenstein of Dresden, Dresden Park Railway Frýdlant 169 Castle Weesenstein Grosssedlitz Thuringia Lichtenwalde Baroque Garden Zittau 95 Castle & Park Freiberg Castle 172 173 Gera 170 Chemnitz A17 A 4 Augustusburg Czech Republik Castle Liberec 101 Deˇcˇín 173 175 Wildeck Nový Bor Zeulenroda-Triebes Castle Ústí nad Labem Zwickau Scharfenstein CeskᡠLípa A72 169 Castle 95 174 Teplice 93 500 Copenhagen km 400 101 km 283 Most Rostock 300 169 Hamburg km Plauen 200 Amsterdam Berlin km Chomutov Hannover Warsaw Potsdam 100 km Information and tickets London Cologne Dresden Brussels T +49 351 49 11 705 92 Frankfurt am Main Prag [email protected] Ostrov Hof Stuttgart semperoper.de Paris Bratislava Munich Vienna Bavaria Karlovy Vary Budapest Bern Scale Federal road Motorway Castle, Fortress, Garden, Park, Monastery, Castle Hotel Ljubljana Lighthouse at Moritzburg Little Pheasant Castle 1 5 10 15 20 km Zagreb Old splendor in new glory Castles become palaces The splendor of Baroque and Rococo Augustus the Strong grants an audience _____________ 3 Duchess Elisabeth von Rochlitz remembers __________ 17 Matthaeus Daniel Poeppelmann presents ____________ 41 Rochlitz Castle / Kriebstein Castle __________________ 18 / 19 Pillnitz Castle and Park / Wackerbarth Castle __________ 44 / 45 Solid walls and sturdy towers Weesenstein Castle ______________________________ 20 / 21 The Great Garden of Dresden / The Dresden Zwinger __ 46 / 47 Meissen Albrechtsburg Castle ______________________ 22 / 23 Rammenau Baroque Castle _______________________ 50 / 51 Margrave Otto the Rich recounts __________________ 7 Grosssedlitz Baroque Garden ______________________ 52 / 53 Altzella Monastery Park / Buch Monastery ____________ 8 / 9 Moritzburg Castle / Moritzburg Little Pheasant Castle ___ 54 / 55 Stolpen Castle _________________________________ 10 / 11 New thinking - new forms Delitzsch Baroque Castle / Lichtenwalde Castle and Park __ 56 / 57 Bautzen Ortenburg Castle / Mildenstein Castle ________ 12 / 13 Elector Augustus presents ________________________ 25 Gnandstein Castle / Scharfenstein Castle _____________ 14 / 15 Augustusburg Castle / Nossen Castle ________________ 26 / 27 Dresden Residential Castle ________________________ 30 / 31 schloesserlandPASS _____________________________ 58 Freudenstein Castle / Hartenfels Castle ______________ 32 / 33 How to get to Saxony ____________________________ 59 Wildeck Castle / Dresden Fortress __________________ 36 / 37 Editorial details ________________________________ 60 Museum Accommodation schloesserlandPASS discounts Colditz Castle _________________________________ 38 / 39 Map of Saxony _________________________________ 62 www.schloesserland-sachsen.de The brochure »A trip fit for a king« is out of stock? schloesserland-sachsen.de/service Order a complimentary copy of our brochure at our website. Kriebstein Castle Old splendor in new glory »Be warmly welcomed to Schloesserland Sachsen! For more than eight hundred years the land, which once had emerged from the March of Meissen, was ruled by members of my dynasty. And they left magnificent buildings everywhere – evidence of their power and wealth, but also testimony to joie de vivre and love of the arts. As mar- graves, dukes, electors and kings of the House of Wettin they once contributed to what Saxony represents today: the most popular destination in Germany for culture-loving tourists. Of course, it was not just them – everywhere in the country, Saxon nobles strived to emulate their idol, thus generating a density of gorgeous estates that is unique in the world. Many of them were designed by the best architects of their time. Masterbuilders, such as Arnold von Westfalen, Matthaeus Daniel Poeppelmann and Johann Christoph Knoeffel, created buildings which met the highest standards of the time and which today continue to attract as much admiration as ever. They have carefully been restored and are open to visitors from far and near as museums, cultural sites or hotels. With every step you take you will encounter outstanding testimonies to Saxon creativity: medieval castles and monasteries, proud Renaissance palaces, pompous Baroque residences, extensive gardens and parks and fantastic neo-style buildings of the 19th century. Indulge in the way of life of the nobles of bygone times and allow yourself to be enchanted in an atmosphere of exclusivity. Listen to the wealth of anecdotes about our rich history, for which I myself, in no small part, »THE SKIRT am responsible.« CHASER« Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, King Augustus II of Poland, also known as »Augustus the Strong« (1670–1733) www.schloesserland-sachsen.de 3 Moritzburg Castle Altzella Monastery Park Solid walls and sturdy towers »In my time, the March of Meissen started to blossom. I had forests chopped down, land turned into arable fields and counties founded. Towns, such as Leipzig and Freiberg, emerged. Proud, fortified castles secured the new settlements and trading routes. Some of them have been preserved so very well that still today one might expect the castle gates to open and the lord of the castle and his companions on their stallions would sweep over the drawbridge. Bowers and donjons, knights’ halls, castle chapels and gloomy dungeons invite you to embark on a fascinating trip into medieval times. The special atmosphere of those times continues to greet visitors to the castles of Mildenstein, Gnandstein and Scharfenstein even today. Apart from the castles, monasteries were set up as centers of spiritual life. They steadily developed into centers of culture and education, as for example, the Cistercian abbeys of Buch and Altzella. The latter did not only become famous as the burial site of Meissen margraves, but also for its extensive library which ranked among the most important ones in the Empire. The reason, however, that the sobriquet »the Rich« was added to my name after my death has less to do with gaining knowledge than with acquiring a hoard of silver treasures. »THE Rich finds of this noble metal were discovered in the densely wooded mountains nearby the monastery in 1168. It precipitated a »Berggeschrey« (mining frenzy), attracting scores MONEY - of pitmen and miners, charcoal burners and traders to Saxony. I gave every man who was up to it the rights to mine in the »Ore Mountains«. Ambitions were spurred – and the RAKER« »Bergzehnte« or mining duty that was owed to me filled my treasury thoroughly …« Margrave Otto the Rich (1125–1190) www.schloesserland-sachsen.de 7 ALTZELLA MONASTERY PARK The heritage of the Cistercians hen the waves of Reformation swept over the echo of the monks and their activities. Such was the bricks of the monastery were removed to be used WSaxony the German princes who had converted the case also in Altzella, after the Saxon sovereign, Prince elsewhere, while valuable books from the library, numbe - to the Lutheran faith drove the monks out of their Henry the Pious, had ordered the secularization of the ring well over a thousand, were passed on to the Uni- monasteries. There remained ruined monastery grounds, Cistercian monastery there. The grounds where the versity of Leipzig. However, because Altzella was the in which only those interested in history could perceive monks had lived and worked since 1175 fell into ruin, cemetery for the noble Wettin family, the royal court in Dresden never ceased to be interested in the lands. Here, in 1787, Elector August III erected a mausoleum in early-Classicistic style, while his garden architect Johann Friedrich Huebler surrounded the white burial place with a landscaped park in the style of the Romantic period. The manmade landscape, so natural in its appea - rance, with its old pointed arches, seemingly fixed gables and broken pillars quickly attracted famous names