Schloss Moritzburg

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Schloss Moritzburg Description

14km/9mi northwest of Dresden, in a landscape reserve, is Schloss Moritzburg, an Electoral hunting lodge and pleasure palace in the ochre and white of Saxon Baroque. Here, on a low granite hill in a marshy depression in the Friedewald, Duke (later Elector) Moritz built in 1542-44 a modest hunting-box which developed into a large hunting lodge. Then, during the reign of Augustus the Strong, in 1723-36, Z. Longueline, M. D. Pöppelmann and J. C. Knöffel built the palace as we see it today. The old hunting lodge and its chapel (1661-71) were incorporated in the new structure. Celebrated sculptors like Balthasar Permoser, J. C. Kirchner and Benjamin Thomae carved the Baroque statues on the balustrades of the carriage ramp and the terrace. The

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Hobbies & Activities category: Significant work of art; Castle, chateau, palace; Paintings, art collections; Natural area; Christian sites; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain

Schloss Moritzburg Highlights

Baroque Museum

The Baroque Museum in the Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden has a select collection of applied and decorative art of the 16th-18th centuries - sedan chairs, coaches, porcelain, furniture, wallpaper,

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Game Park

The game park, in the Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden, with an area of 40 hectares/100 acres, dates from the time of Augustus the Strong. Here in large open enclosures live moufflon, red deer,

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Kathe Kollwitz Memorial Museum

In the lower rooms of the Schloss Moritzburg near Dresden is a memorial museum in honor of the painter and sculptress Käthe Kollwitz, who died in Dresden in 1945, with a small collection of her works. In Käthe-Kollwitz-Platz is a memorial stone.

Pheasants' Palace

On the east side of the Moritzburg Schlosspark stands the Fasanenschlösschen, an elegant little Roccoco palace (chinoiserie) built and decorated by J. D. Schade and J. G. Hauptmann between 1769 and

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Stud Farm

A stud farm was established in Moritzburg near Dresden in 1828 with the object of breeding crossbreeds and heavy (draught) horses. The stud now breeds mainly crossbreeds for riding. The parades of stallions attract up to 50,000 visitors annually.

Address

Schloss Moritzburg
D-01468 Moritzburg
Germany

http://www.schloss-moritzburg.de

Hours

April 1 to October 31

Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30

November 1 to March 31

Open	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed		16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00	16:00

Always closed on:
Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24) New Year's Eve (December 31)