(Source = dresdner-stadtteile.de) In 1824 Prince Friedrich August (later King Friedrich August II.) Bought three vineyards in the village of Wachwitz for 11,000 thalers. Another plot of land followed in 1825, before the entire Niederpoyritz manor with Wachwitz could be acquired in 1827. In the years that followed, Friedrich August bought additional properties so that a contiguous area of almost 40 hectares was created. At that time there were only a few buildings on the property, including the old Wachwitz wine press and a winegrower's house, which the Wettiner had converted into a small palace. Above, a small chapel was built on a rock in the middle of the vineyards.
Friedrich August only stayed in Wachwitz occasionally. The management of the property was therefore entrusted to a gardener who was expressly to allow strangers to visit the royal vineyard if the king was not present. Even today, the stranger enjoys the right of way, even if many signs indicate that you are now entering a private route at your own risk.
After Friedrich August II took office in 1836, Wachwitz developed into the summer residence of the Wettins. Visits by King Otto I of Greece and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I are guaranteed. After the king died in a mountain accident in Tyrol in 1854, Queen Maria chose Wachwitz as her widow's residence, she died in 1877. Around 1890 the old vineyard palace was demolished and replaced by a larger villa. In 1984, a circle of friends was founded, which together with the Wachwitz winegrowing community, planted parts of the former vineyards with vines again from 1987 onwards. I took a photo of the following buildings: