Events 2012

You can attend concerts, theater performances and re-enactments, and enjoy the spirit of Christmas in aristocratic surroundings. Selected events are presented here.

February 2012

up to 26 Feb

Winter Exhibition »Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella«

From 2011 during winter time, visitors may indulge in the plot of one of the most beautiful fairytale films of all time. In 1972/73, this fairytale classic, which enchants all Germany during Christmas time every year, was shot on location of Moritzburg Castle.

February to mid-April 2012

Pillnitz Camellia Blossom

The more than 250-year-old camellia is bearing up to 35,000 carmine blossoms.

Permanent Exhibition at Albrechtsburg Meissen

Reach for the top! In the new permanent exhibition, visitors will experience, apart from its history of being used as a place of manufacture, the residential areas in the castle, its historical conversion and aspects of Saxon state history.

The Dresden Fortress underneath Bruehl’s Terraces Shining in New Splendour

Newly discover the fortress, the place where in 1707 Johann Friedrich Boettger invented the European porcelain in his laboratory deeply underneath the Virgin’s Bastion.