Delitzsch CastleFamily feud
In the event that a princess should beget a child not with her infantile spouse but rather with a secret lover, then the European higher nobility of former times had no scruples. The illegitimate offspring of the duchess Henriette Charlotte von Saxony-Merseburg is said to have been given to a nanny after birth and then to have been raised under another name.
The child, however, died soon after an emergency baptism. The pleasant side-effect for Saxon’s prince elector, Augustus the Strong, who was pulling the strings of this tragic court plot in the background, was that the rivaling side-line Saxony-Merseburg died out with this sad royal couple. In stark contrast to such nasty intrigues is the bright and cheerful Baroque character of Delitzsch Castle today.
The pastel color of the castle, the once-popular residence of traveling Saxon princes in the middle of the Delitzsch lake district, attracts artistically minded visitors with its museum and Baroque garden, especially during the annual castle festival. Inside the castle visitors can marvel at the prestigious interior which despite the temporary use of the castle as a women’s penitentiary has still retained a great deal of its original appeal.
Address
Barockschloss Delitzsch
Schloßstraße 31 | D-04509 Delitzsch
Phone: +49 34202 67237
barockschloss@stadt-delitzsch.de
www.delitzsch.de
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