Top 19 Castles around Jessen (Elster)

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Reinharz Moated Castle, nestled in forests, resembles a legendary fairytale castle. The castle park and surrounding water features, with their rare trees, invite you to linger. Heinrich von Löser, Electoral Marshal of Saxony, had this impressive moated castle built between 1690 and 1701, featuring a baroque park, a castle pond, and a brewery pond, to provide appropriate accommodation for the nobility during their hunts in the Düben Heath. Source: https://www.anhalt-dessau-wittenberg.de/staedte-sehenswuerdigkeiten-landschaften/wasserschloss-reinharz

Nice private property, the park is accessible.

Reinharz Castle and Castle Park Heinrich von Löser, Electorate of Saxony's hereditary marshal, had a representative moated castle with a baroque park, castle pond and brewery pond built between 1690 and 1701 in order to provide appropriate accommodation for the nobles during their hunts in the Düben Heath. Löser based the three-story, horseshoe-shaped building on the annual division: the facade is divided into 365 windows, and the castle has 52 doors and 12 rooms. The 68 m high tower was used as an observatory in the 18th century. Valuable scientific equipment was created in the mechanical-optical workshop, including telescopes, reflecting telescopes and sundials. 15 of these are on display in the Mathematical-Physical Salon of the Dresden Zwinger. The formally designed garden was probably completed in the first half of the 18th century under the direction of Hans von Löser. In 1837, the castle, including the farm buildings and park, was sold to the bourgeois Hertwig family, who had the park landscaped after 1850. The northern embroidery parterre with the strictly axial path system was removed. In addition, a connected meadow area, the "castle meadow", was created with many, sometimes rare, individual trees and groups of trees. Today, they characterize the striking old trees. In the southern section of the park, the main path system has largely been preserved. Between 1947 and 1990, the castle and park were used as a spa complex. The complex has been privately owned since 1998. Source: display board

The castle is well worth seeing

As the complex was used as an orphanage from 1829 onwards, only a few pieces of the original furnishings remain in the building. These include ornamented consoles dating from 1574, a stucco ceiling from 1720 or 1727 and some studded doors. The local museum has three panels from a wooden ceiling of the castle decorated with arabesque paintings on display. These are dated to 1574. The local museum also has a cast-iron stove plate with a view of Dresden. Another stove from the castle is now in the Luther Room of the Luther House in Wittenberg. Castle Park Sandstone portal of Pretzsch Castle The design of the castle park, which was laid out in 1702 and designed as a baroque pleasure garden, probably comes from Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. From 1727 onwards, the unfinished park was used as an orchard and kitchen garden. The formerly elongated park buildings are now only preserved in remnants. These are single-storey solid buildings that framed the garden areas. The four buildings, which now stand alone, were originally connected in pairs in the middle by pavilions and served as a habitable garden house and orangery. Of the sculptures that were once in the park, only a sandstone putto in a jester's costume playing the flute has survived. There are sandstone portals to the park at the former pier on the Elbe and at the entrance from the city to the castle courtyard. In 1798, it was converted into a landscape park.[4] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Pretzsch

The castle is a plastered brick building in the style of the Saxon Renaissance, which was expanded and rebuilt in the Dresden Baroque era. Its current appearance dates from around 1700, when the attic was also expanded. The castle complex, originally surrounded by moats, consists of two wings and has three floors. To the west is a two-story gatehouse with a two-part Doric column portal. The columns stand on diamond-cut pedestals. The coats of arms of the then builder Hans Löser and his wife Agnes von Bünau are attached between winged putti. In the middle of this is the alliance coat of arms of Wolf Christoph von Arnim and Catharina Dorothea, née Countess von Hoym, dating from 1647. A square staircase tower is located between the north and east wings. A building inscription is attached above the entrance to the tower. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Pretzsch