821 Schmochtitz was sold to Count Johannes Sigismund Riesch from Neschwitz. During this time, the English landscape style found its way into the baroque complex to the west of the estate. After that, the Schmochtitz manor came mainly into bourgeois hands. Here it was especially the industrialist Otto Thost from Zwickau who further developed Schmochtitz. Acquired by him in 1892, in 1893 he had the farm buildings, which are now parallel, built in the Swiss country house style. He also gave a lot of money to the parks, whereby the baroque design was largely preserved.
In 1892, the Zwickau manufacturer Wilhelm Otto Thost was the owner of the facility, who had further conversion work carried out on the farm buildings and redesigned essential Baroque and Rococo elements of the park as a contemporary landscape park. For example, the water facilities around the ring moat in the northern part of the park were expanded, the existing canal system and numerous memorials were accentuated or supplemented (for those who died in World War I).