Altenburg - Castle Schloss

The Altenburg Castle Church (after 1444) has an organ by H. G. Trost (1738), on which Johann Sebastian Bach played in 1739.

The Castle Museum in Altenburg has a large collection of playing cards and a playing-card-maker's workshop of 1600.

The Lindenau Museum (1873-75) in Altenburg Castle, housed in a building in Italian Renaissance style, has a varied collection - casts of antique sculpture, medieval German sculpture, Italian Renaissance and neo-classical sculpture, Greek and Etruscan vases, Italian painting of the 13th-15th centuries, and paintings, graphic art and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Mauritianum, in the Altenburg Schlosspark, is a natural history museum.

Notable features of the Altenburg Schlosspark, landscaped by Peter Joseph Lenné in the 19th C, are the Tea-House and the Orangery (1712).