Hoflößnitz Castle & Saxon Wine Museum

The Hoflößnitz building ensemble consists of the Lusthaus and Berghaus, the wine tavern with the wine terrace as well as the press house, the Kavalierhaus and a guest house. The buildings date from different eras, but the basic structure of the complex can be traced back to the 17th century.

A visit to this idyllic complex is very worthwhile, because you can visit exhibitions of the Saxon Wine Museum in the Lust- and Berghaus as well as the Kavalierhaus, find out more about the region in the press house and enjoy the wines and the view in the wine tavern or on the terrace.

Hoflößnitz Castle / Pleasure Palace - History
In 1401, a large winery, Hoflößnitz, was founded in what is now Radebeul in Saxony-Anhalt. Over time, the estate was expanded with numerous buildings, including a pleasure palace built between 1648 and 1650 by Elector Johann Georg I. A welcome guest in the 17th century was August the Strong, who invited his hunting parties here. After several changes of ownership, a Russian general came into possession in 1899. He redesigned the castle and added a tower structure in the neo-Rococo style.
Now that the winery has been parceled out, plans were made to develop the surrounding land. In 1912, an association was finally founded to take care of the renovation of the castle, which had by then been in serious disrepair. In 1924, the community had a local history museum set up in Hoflößnitz Castle. In the same year, the Oberlößnitz youth hostel also moved into the castle.
During the Second World War, prisoners of war were housed in the castle, after which the Soviet occupying forces took over the building, which had survived the war unscathed. From 1949 you could visit the local history museum again, which had specialized in viticulture since the mid-1980s. The facility in Hoflößnitz Castle, which has now been upgraded to the Saxon Wine Museum, can still be visited today.
Text / Source: Burgen und Schlösser GmbH, Paderborn
burgen-und-schloesser.net/sachsen/schloss-hofloessnitz/geschichte.html

The Saxon Viticulture Museum
The history of the museum goes back to 1912, when the Hoflößnitz Association, which was founded specifically for this purpose, acquired the castle property, which had been privatized in 1889, and began renovating the buildings and building a collection of wine-growing history.
After a delay due to the war, the Lust- und Berghaus opened its doors at Whitsun 1924 as a local history museum for the community of Oberlößnitz. The plan to expand the local history museum into a city museum, which had been pursued since the mid-1930s after the incorporation of Oberlößnitz into Radebeul, was thwarted by the Second World War. In 1967, the Dresden District Council decided to profile the house as a wine-growing museum in the Elbe Valley. As part of the comprehensive renovation of the facility that began in 1977, the new concept has been gradually implemented since the beginning of the 1980s.
OPENING HOURS - Tue – Sun from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. -
Entry €3.50 per person
Text / Source: Saxon Viticulture Museum
hofloessnitz.de/museum