Hof (Naundorf)

court Naundorf municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 25 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 21 ″ E
Postal code :	04758
Area code :	03435
Location of Hof in Saxony

Hof is a district of the municipality of Naundorf in the district of North Saxony in Saxony .

Geography and transport links

Hof is located southwest of the center of Naundorf. The Jahna flows through the village with the Salbitzer Bach . The B 169 runs on the southern outskirts, the B 6 further north.

history

Courtyard: New Castle, Baroque (1750)

Old castle courtyard. Renaissance around 1540.

The old castle was built around 1540 for Christoph von Schleinitz . The ballroom on the upper floor is adorned with one of the most beautiful Renaissance ceilings in Saxony, which was installed at the beginning of the 17th century. The coffered ceiling contains 88 pictures with depictions of gardens and palaces as well as symbolic scenes surrounded by Latin sayings. Today the old castle is the seat of the municipality of Naundorf.

Old castle courtyard. Detail of the renaissance ceiling.

In 1690 the estate came to the hands of the Imperial Counts of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf , who had emigrated from Lower Austria to Saxony due to their Protestant beliefs. Friedrich Christian Reichsgraf and Herr von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1697–1756) had the New Palace built next to the Old Palace around 1750, which now houses a primary school. The baroque building consists of two wings with a tall, slender stair tower whose onion dome dates from 1905. The facades were provided with an elegant, illusionistic painting, which was reconstructed in a test axis. The manor was dissolved in 1932 and since then both castles have been owned by the municipality.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Salbitz was incorporated.

Church in the courtyard
Old castle
New lock

Web links

Commons : courtyard - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hof (Naundorf) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
The church in Hof on kirche-naundorf.de