Top 18 Castles around Doberschau-Gaußig

Bautzen boasts several important fountains, including the Ritter-Dutschmann Fountain on the main market square, the historic New Waterworks in the city fortifications, the Nymph and Unicorn drinking fountain on Reichenstraße, and the Elector Johann Georg Fountain. There's also the historic Gesundbrunnen fountain, whose spring was once considered to have healing properties. These fountains are part of the city's sights and history.

The former entrance to Ortenburg

A very beautiful tower.

The chapel, consecrated in 1225 by Meissen Bishop Bruno II in the castle tower, was redesigned in the 15th century. Destroyed as St. George's Chapel during the Thirty Years' War, it was never restored. The monument on the tower, created in 1486 by a South German master, depicts the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus (1443 to 1490). Matthias was Bohemian anti-king and ruler of the Bohemian crown lands, including Lusatia, from 1469 to 1490. The coats of arms in the monument to the right of King Matthias are, from top to bottom, the coat of arms of Galicia, that of the Hunyadi and Luxembourg, and to the left the coats of arms of Styria, Austria, Silesia, and Lusatia. Two four-part alliance coats of arms above the king show on the right that of Hungary and Dalmatia and on the left that of Bohemia and Moravia. Four copies of the monument are known: three in Budapest and Szeged (Hungary) and one in Král'ova Lehota (Slovakia). Source:https://www.bautzen.de/tourismus-kultur-freizeit/sehen-erleben/rundgaenge-fuehrungen/geschichtspfad

It's worth a detour if you're passing by here anyway.

...to the old water art with the remains of the city wall, to the Mühlbastei, Ortenburg and Michaeliskirche, to the water tower and to the St. Petri Cathedral.

Ruins of a hilltop castle at 275 m above sea level. NN on a granite cone surrounded by the Spree. The name Körse refers to the Sorbian origin. From the 10th century onwards, the rocky spur was used to build a fortification, a redoubt, as the Sorbian settlement area was extended to the region of today's Kirschau. The purpose of the rampart was to protect the settlement area from unexpected attacks. Occupied and destroyed around 1100, a stone German fortification was built on the same site between 1200 and 1250 At that time, the castle was the largest and strongest defensive structure in Upper Lusatia. Their task was to protect the Bohemian Trail, one of the oldest traffic connections between Upper Lusatia and Bohemia (known there as Alte Prager Straße). It led from Bautzen via Obergurig, Kirschau, Schirgiswalde and Sohland to Sderchluckenau (Šluknov), Bohemian Leipa (Česká Lípa) and Prague. In addition, a salt road crossed nearby, which also had to be guarded. Later, however, the lords of the castle were accused of robbery, so that in 1352 the castle was stormed and destroyed by troops from the League of Six Towns. An information board in the remains of today's complex claims that the lords of the castle were declared enemies more because of their opposition to the Bohemian king and the League of Six Towns. In 1359 the castle was again destroyed and razed. There was no reconstruction. Source: Wikipedia

Built between 1483 and 1486 on the basis of the Matthiastor in the late Gothic style. Named after the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, who owned the castle as lord of Upper Lusatia from 1469 to 1490. On the city side of the tower, since 1486, there has been a monumental sandstone relief by Briccius Gauske, depicting King Matthias. Source: Wikipedia