Schnackenburg Market Square

A beautiful little town.

The former Amtshof of Schnackenburg is located just behind the ferry on the banks of the Elbe and can be seen from afar with its, overgrown by ivy, walls.

Customs had its headquarters there until the fall of the Wall. The plaster was peeling, beams lay on the floor, the property in front of the house had been flattened like a gravel parking lot. Heavy armored doors on the first floor locked the former armory. Today the guest bed of the "Schubertiaden" is right there, and we will talk about these later.

"In the beginning we were strangers here," says Tatjana Zenziper. "Two Russians came into the largest house in Schnackenburg. I don't think everyone was equally enthusiastic, but I can understand that." The Zenzipers are now one of those families who are reinventing life in isolation. And hardly a place would be more suitable for this than Schnackenburg.

Tatjana Zenziper wears ballerinas, tight trousers, a blazer, and she looks much too relaxed for the fact that she only arrived at three o'clock the night before, by car from Dresden. The family has another residence there. Zenziper's husband Arkadi is a piano professor at the Dresden University of Music "Carl Maria von Weber".

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