1500 – 1600
- 1519
- Brühl’s Terrace / Casemates
Fortifications are built around Dresden by Duke George the Bearded
- 1524
- Albrechtsburg Castle, Meissen
Meissen Castle is finished under Duke George the Bearded; in 1676 it is named ‘Albrechtsburg’
- 1539
- Stolpen Castle
The Reformation takes place in Saxony; the bishops of Meissen retreat to Stolpen, taking their most precious relics with them
- 1540
- Altzella Monastery
Secularisation of Altzella Monastery (confiscation as a consequence of the Reformation in Saxony)
- 1542
- Moritzburg Castle
Duke Moritz of Saxony has a Renaissance hunting lodge named ‘Moritzburch’ built, the predecessor of Moritzburg Palace
- 1548
- Brühl’s Terrace / Casemates
Dresden’s fortifications are reinforced under Elector August
- 1548
- Altzella Monastery
Elector August allows people to use the monastery as a source of building materials
- 1559
- Stolpen Castle
Elector August of Saxony takes over the castle, town and administrative centre of Stolpen; the castle is altered and extended to be a more stately and better fortified building
- 1568
- Augustusburg Castle
Schellenberg Castle is partly destroyed and demolished. By 1573 the architects Hieronymus Lotter and Count Rochus v. Lynar build Augustusburg Palace. The rich wall paintings are by court painter Heinrich Göding
- 1568
- Dresden Stable Courtyard
The buildings surrounding the Dresden Stable Courtyard are built to designs by Paul Buchner
- 1586-91
- Dresden Stable Courtyard
Paul Buchner builds a tiltyard by the south-eastern corner of Dresden Palace, the fore-runner of Dresden Stable Courtyard
- 1589
- Brühl’s Terrace / Casemates
The ‘Jungfernbastei’ bastion of Dresden’s fortifications is built
- 1589
- Königstein Fortress
Elector Christian I initiates the conversion of Königstein Castle into a fortress
- 1590
- Brühl’s Terrace / Casemates
The casemates of Dresden’s fortifications are built
