Schloss Nossen
Chronicles of nobility
Changing fortunes create particularly charming buildings. This is especially true for Nossen Castle. The medieval knight‘s castle that previously stood on this site was first mentioned in 1185 in connection with a legal dispute of the owners the lords of Nuzzin.
Elector Augustus started converting the old walls into a Renaissance hunting lodge in 1554. This gave the architecture of what used to be a murky fortification a certain degree of ease. The spirit of that European era of cultural dawn can still be sensed today. Former prison cells and authentic replicas of medieval torture instruments, however, are proof of the dark side of this place where, for quite some time, a court pronounced its relentless sentences. Also Countess Cosel, the famous mistress of excessive Saxon ruler Augustus the Strong, is part of Nossen Castle‘s history. In 1716, the critically sick mistress had been attended to at this place for a month before she was taken to Stolpen Castle where she was to die in solitude only 49 years later.
Today, Nossen Castle accommodates a unique historical library of 6,000 volumes, whose leather-bound treasures attract researchers from far afield. Visitors who take an interest in the genealogy of Saxon nobility may visit the exhibition rooms to embark on an exciting trip back in time through the chronicles of the blue-blooded ancestry that ruled the country between Vogtland and Lusatia for many centuries.
Address
Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und
Gärten Sachsen
Schloss Nossen
Am Schloß 3 | D-01683 Nossen
Phone +49 (0) 3 52 42 5 04-30
Fax +49 (0) 3 52 42 5 04-33
nossen@schloesserland-sachsen.de
www.schloss-nossen.de
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