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Easy access. A beautiful setting. The grounds are very well maintained and invite you to explore and take photos. You can spend a wonderful time there and feel like a lord or damsel of a castle. Not an original ruin from the Middle Ages, it was designed as a ruin and built at the end of the 19th century.

A very beautiful old ruin. From the top of the tower, you have a great view. It's easy to reach, and there's plenty of parking (even free) down below.

In the easternmost and oldest part of Theresienstein Park, on Labyrinth Hill, stands the Labyrinth Ruins. As early as the 17th century, a maze had existed here, created by a Hof teacher for his students. Starting in 1861, city architect Gottlob Thomas developed the idea of creating the ruins of a medieval castle here—in keeping with the spirit of the times. This castle complex, built from 1877 to 1893 as a ruin, consists of a bastioned circular structure and a keep, which is actually an observation tower. The 16-meter-high tower is open to the public and a popular vantage point for Hof residents. Seventy steps lead to the viewing platform, from which one can view the surrounding area of Hof and the Saxon Vogtland region.

The 16-meter-high tower, part of the artificially created ruins on Labyrinthberg (Labyrinth Hill) since 1861, offers a magnificent view of Hof and its scenic surroundings, extending into Saxony. Seventy steps lead to the top of the tower.

You have to enjoy this view.

The labyrinth is a beautiful man-made ruin and not a classic labyrinth. The observation tower (be careful, very high steps) offers a fantastic view over the courtyard. Entry and ascent are free.

The exploration of the city is still pending...

In addition to the Theresienstein house, the second spectacular building in the park! As early as 1877, the idea of “building an observation tower at the height of the labyrinth met with lively approval”. And to this day, the building has lost none of its magic. City architect Thomas planned the artificial castle ruins down to the last detail. The ruined walls could not simply be built up — no! He corrected the course of the Wall in the blueprints in "red" for more excitement. Built in 1877 (to save costs from the remains of the shooting wall at the foot of the labyrinth and from cheap limestone from the Sand quarry), the castle was given a low, bastion-like round tower in 1893, which was "flanged" to the side of the existing ensemble by an archway. The latter came from Hof Castle, which burned down in 1743. Oh yes — when the flag was hoisted on the tower on Sundays, there was a beer bar... Labyrinth — what an enigmatic name! An ancient manuscript sheds light on the darkness: Johann Will, pastor from Neudorf near Schauenstein, noted in 1692 that "Hoff" had funny mountains, "when there is the labyrinth mountain, there before [earlier] a learned hand of the school youth reached out In 1701, Johann Andreas Planer reveals what the maze looked like in his book “Historia Varisciae” in Latin: The labyrinth would be a round space formed by fir trees. Back then, in the heyday of the Albertinum-Gymnasium (today Jean-Paul) in Hof, mazes were in fashion and you had to find your way out of them in the game. They were inspired by the Greek legend of Daedalus, who built a labyrinth to imprison the dangerous, bull-like Minotaur.