Culture and relaxation - castles and locks

Recover in the vacation, in our closer and somewhat further environment are you for each day and evening the suitable moment for itself whether active relaxation, museums, exhibitions, castles, guidance, steamship trips, city inspections and and..the vacation becomes interesting!!! On this side would like I would like you some of many possibilities to darbieten.

Castles, locks and gardens

The fortress king stone removes only 5 km von Weissig. Embedded into the bizarre rock landscape of Saxonian Switzerland the fortress king stone on a board mountain (361 m far away visibly thront ü. M.). The impressive mountain fortress pulls not only militaryhistorically interested in its spell, but also nature lover, for which along 2.2 km are enough themselves Brustwehr a fantastischer view on the pictorial Elbsandsteingebirge and the Ausläufer of the east ore mountains offers. In the 9.5 hectars large fortification large and small can discover interesting. For the Rundgang one should take at least three hours into account. Who follows a guidance, entrance to the 400 years old low cellars and underground Kasemattenanlagen in addition receives.

Close ones of the district town Pirna, about 15 km von Weissig far away, reach you the baroque garden Grosssedlitz. The baroque garden Grosssedlitz is the most beautiful and best received baroque garden of Saxonia. Its lawn Parterres, strictly cut hedges, Wasserbecken with Fontänen, the "stone sea" with numerous cascades, the outside staircases and terrace plants with sculptures are embedded into a geometrical Wegenetz with three centerlines. The garden of the buildings of baroque Friedrichsschlös, upper Orangerie and lower Orangerie is enriched.

The castle Stolpen offers a far visibly expanded medieval castle plant, Nebenresidenz of meissnischer bishops and Saxonian cure princes, who form a unit with the Naturdenkmal Stolpener basalt. The castle with its salient towers visibly rises far away over the country. The castle with the tragic fate of the countess Cosel, the most famous Mätresse August of the strong one is inseparably connected. The prisoner on Stolpen spent 49 years. Their grave place is in the castle chapel. In the Coselturm a constant exhibition reminds of its adventurous and fateful life. It at the same time grants an everyday life-historical view into the fruitful epoch of the Augustei baroque in Saxonia.

700 years long on lock Weesenstein was built and torn off, changed and received and in such a way developed a building, which saves traces from the gothic to the classicism in its walls. History lock Weesensteins began as medieval weir system.While the most castles and locks of Saxonia continual changed by the frequent owner changes and changes, the Bünaus the lock left the character of medieval Wehrhaftigkeit. One considered to the requirements of changing life culture and representation particularly by adding new lock wings. Like Jahresringe newer construction units stored themselves around the old core castle. Those were however rock following more deeply convenient. Cellars and horse stables lay thereby over the salon. An architectural curiosity developed and an historical indication. In the baroque the owners tried to adapt the difference of the buildings by a illusionistic front painting to the time taste outwardly.