Playground and rest area Zschöppichen

Manor Neusorge Zschöppichenconstruction time
18th century,
1720, from 1751 to the late 1760s (reconstruction after fire)
architectural style
Baroque
builder
General Von Arnim
Builder/Architect
presumably Johann Christoph Knöffel
Condition
The Neusorge Castle in Zschöppichen is in a damaged condition. The farm buildings are in good to damaged condition. The park is overgrown.
Todays use
Castle: vacant
Access
The grounds of the Neusorge manor in Zschöppichen are accessible. The castle cannot be visited.descriptionLayout
The three-winged castle and the three-winged farm buildings enclose a rectangular courtyard. The castle stands in place of a castle.
structure
Castle: two-storey,
Farm buildings: one and two floors,
facade
Castle: plaster facade, walls, cornices and baluster galleries made of porphyry, courtyard side with outside staircase and portal, garden side with central risalit,
Farm buildings: plaster facades, quarry stone masonry
roof shape
Castle: hipped mansard roof,
Farm buildings: gabled and hipped mansard roofsFurther information
parkA spacious garden was added to the castle, the layout and design of which is no longer available. The park is now overgrown.
People & History Knights of Wolkenburg (owner 1350),
called a knight's seat (1445),
von Stockhausen family (owners mid-15th century),
von Schönberg family (successors),
Fire in the castle, construction of a Renaissance chateau (1579),
Elector Christian II of Saxony (purchase 1610),
von Arnim family (owners from 1689),
Castle fire (1745),
Gotthelf Adolph von Hoym (owner 1756 to 1767),
Carl Sigismund von Arnim (owner from 1767),
Heinrich von Bünau (purchased around 1770),
Carlowitz family
Leipzig Welfare Association (purchased before 1914),
Elsa Brändström (takeover of the castle 1923/24 to 1931),
Leipzig welfare association (owner from 1931 to 1934),
Motorsport school of the National Socialist Motor Corps (from 1934),
Division of the manor as the so-called 1st Saxon farming settlement,
Refugee hostel and sports school (after 1945),
Children's home and school (until 1993)Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/schloesser-herrenhaeuser/zschoeppichen-schloss-neusorge-chemnitz

Nice rest area / playground in the middle of Zschöppichen.

great corner, always worth a trip