Unlike the neighbouring Neurathen Castle very little is known about the history of Altrathen Castle. It was probably built ...
Wildeck Castle was built originally in the 12th century, by only the keep is left from that. Prince elector Moritz of Saxony ...
Weesenstein castle was erected here sometime around 1200, built with the purpose of defending the border to the Kingdom of B ...
Rammenau Castle was built between 1721 and 1735 by architect Johann Christoph Knöffel for Ernst Ferdinand von Knoch, chamber ...
Rochsburg Castle was probably founded in the late 12th century. It stands on a rock spur, surrounded on three sides by the Zw ...
Gnandstein castle was built in the Romanesque style in the 13th century, probably only with a rectangular groundplan and a ...
The original structure of Scharfenstein castle was built in 1250. It is suspected that the von Waldenburgs ordered its cons ...
Mylau Castle is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Saxony. It was probably erected during the German eastward expa ...
Schloss Wurzen was built in 1491-1497 in late Gothic style with elements of the early Renaissance by the Meißen bishop Johan ...
Built in the 14th century, the medieval moated castle always served as a holiday residence for Saxon rulers and as accommodat ...
Hohnstein Castle is located on a hard sandstone slab, 140 metres above the Polenz valley and is the major landmark of the ...
The ruins of Frauenstein Castle are located on a 680 metres high granite rock on the crest of the Eastern Ore Mountains near ...
Only small remains of the castle of Wiprecht of Groitzsch on Burgberg ('Castle Hill') are still visible, but the ...
The Schönfeld castle in the Saxon village of Schönfeld was first mentioned in the 13th century and expanded over the centur ...
In 1185 the Knights of Nuzzin were first mentioned as the owners of the Nossen castle. In 1315, the Bishop of Meissen acquire ...
Tharandt Castle ruins is located on a mountain spur high above Tharandt. The castle was built at the beginning of the 13th c ...
Klaffenbach Castle is a rare sample of moated Renaissance castle in Saxony. It was built by Wolf Hünerkopf between 1555-1560 ...
Lauenstein Castle presides majestically over the Müglitztal Valley. The origins of the castle are unknown, Lauenstein was pr ...
Stein Castle in the municipality of Hartenstein on the rocky banks of the river Mulde. The construction of the castle was pro ...
The Winterstein, also called the Hinteres Raubschloss, is an isolated, elongated rock massif in the hinterland of Saxon Swi ...