베터주베‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪20‬개의 동굴

The gate building is a remnant of the former castle of Bad Köstritz. Until recently, it housed the "Schlossgeist" restaurant.

Small cute castle with a tower that can be climbed for 50 cents.

There is a combination ticket for the park and Moritzburg Castle for 8.00€.

The castle wasn't that great when I visited. There are much better ones.

The castle complex in Bad Köstritz is closely linked to the history of the House of Reuß. It introduced primogeniture in 1668 to counteract the further division of the previously contiguous “Land of the Vögte”. This also involved territorial inheritance payments for those “born afterwards”. With the purchase of the “Lower Court” in Köstritz, the prerequisites for the establishment of a Paragium Reuß-Schleiz-Köstritz younger line were created. From 1687 onwards, Heinrich I had the von Wolfframsdorf manor in Köstritz converted into a castle complex with Renaissance style elements as a future residence for his second-born son. It was completed in 1704 and Heinrich XXIV became the first paragiate lord and progenitor of the House of Reuß-Köstritz. Although this branch had no government power, it was involved in significant reforms and produced famous European political and military figures. These included diplomats, generals, holders of the highest offices and even poets, composers and art patrons. Prince Heinrich XLIII. but ruled and lived beyond his real circumstances. This led to personal bankruptcy in 1812. Karl Friedrich Schinkel's plans for an attractive new building for the palace were not realized, but they can be viewed in the Schinkel archive. He had extensive and extremely valuable collections of art and rarities, for which he had a new building built at the castle. They contained paintings by Cranach, Rubens and Rembrandt, numerous geological exhibits, curiosities, valuable jewelry, coins and porcelain. Everything was ultimately auctioned off, but the whereabouts of most of these art treasures are still unknown to this day. Reconstructions in the castle complex after 1945, a new road route through the park and city, the demolition of the dilapidated main castle building in 1972 and serious changes in the former castle park have only partially preserved the original castle complex today. Still worth seeing is the ensemble of retirement home, tower building and side wing, which gives an impression of the former appearance.

The gate building is a remnant of the former Bad Köstritz castle. Until recently, the “Schlossgeist” restaurant was located there.

The baroque castle ensemble of Moritzburg Zeitz consists of the three-wing main building in the rear castle courtyard, as well as the Gothic castle church of St. Peter and Paul, the baroque gatehouse and the outbuildings grouped around the front castle courtyard. The complex is surrounded by fortifications and a moat. The baroque orangery, which is also located to the north outside the fortifications, complements the ensemble. Today the former residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Zeitz is a meeting place. History is preserved, beauty is combined with utility and old with new.

☆ Here, too, a spacious area with a good opportunity to take a break... the church is across the street.