Ponitz

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Ponitz is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

It is particularly famous for its Baroque organ by Gottfried Silbermann[1] and for its spectacularly-eccentric Renaissance manor house.[2]


Further reading

http://www.silbermannorgel-ponitz.de/ Home page of the Silbermann organ
http://silbermann.museum.com/welcome.html Silbermann Museum
Silbermann: Geschichte und legende einer Orgelbauerfamilie (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbeck Verlag, 2006)
http://www.renaissanceschloss-ponitz.de/ Ponitz Renaissanceschloss