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View of Sachsenburg Castle

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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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      February 3, 2025

      an imposing building from the Zschopau
      is one of the few examples of a completely preserved late Gothic residential castle in Saxony
      is currently being renovated

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        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.
        19th/20th century
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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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          Location: Saxony, Germany

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