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View of Sachsenburg Castle

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    February 27, 2025

    Sachsenburg Castle rises near Frankenberg/Sa. on a rock above the Zschopau. The castle complex, which was built in the early 13th century at the latest, was converted into a palace in the 1480s. The complex is one of the few examples of a completely preserved late Gothic residential palace in Saxony.
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    After it was given up as an administrative headquarters (1864), a phase of varied uses began. From 1864 onwards, the castle was used as a detention centre for young female prisoners and in 1867 a penal and correctional facility was set up here. The property remained reserved for prisoners only until 1926, although from 1914 onwards these were prisoners of war (Russians, including interned academics and students from the Freiberg Mining Academy, Englishmen, Serbs).


    From May 1933 it served the NSDAP as a district leadership school for the NS Women's League of Saxony. Towards the end of the Second World War, the castle was used as a bacteriological institute...

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      .....(branch of the Robert Koch Institute). (An exhibition was later set up on this era.)

      After the end of the war, the Sachsenburg served as a place of residence for resettlers before a youth work camp was set up in 1947, which existed until 1967. From 1968, the state-owned Dresden housing construction company was in charge of the castle, which used it as a children's holiday camp and training center....
      (de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Sachsenburg)

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        April 20, 2024

        The castle is under renovation, but still worth a visit; the staircase is a highlight.

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          Location: Saxony, Germany

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