Roßthal Castle

The Roßthal Castle is located in the southwest of the Saxon state capital Dresden , about 6 km from the city center and 500 m northeast of the Autobahn 17 between the Freital district of Pesterwitz and Dresden- Naußlitz .

history

Already in 1628 the Vierhufengut was Roßthal from Protestant provost of Meissen passed and the Electoral valet Ullmann as a fief declared the manor. In 1657, Roßthal Castle was built as a mansion for the owner Alexander von Krahe. In 1736 the manor came into the possession of the von Nimptsch family .

The building was damaged in the Seven Years' War and rebuilt and expanded by Carl Siegmund von Nimptsch. The tower was raised for a better view. A landscape park was created and decorated with various buildings, water arts , grottos and mirrors. The associated lands included at this time 224 hectares and were mainly from the cottagers from Neunimptsch managed. From this period a small rectangular hermitage covered with a tent roof and a pointed arched park gate with a baroque grille have been preserved.

In 1852 Carl Friedrich August Krebs , Baron von Burgk, took over the Roßthal manor. His family remained the owners of the manor until 1945. From 1858 to 1859 Karl Moritz Haenel rebuilt Roßthal Castle and the eight-sided tower in the style of the German Renaissance and provided it with two new upper floors. After the Second World War , the administration of the state-owned goods of Saxony was temporarily housed in the castle. The publicly owned Gut Gartenbau Pesterwitz also took over the agricultural land and set up a vocational school. This still exists today as an agricultural science-oriented grammar school .