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Grillenburg Hunting Lodge

Germany

Heritage status
Kulturdenkmal
Location
Tharandt
Coordinates
50.9512°, 13.5055°
Links
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Grillenburg Hunting Lodge in Germany
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Description

The Jagdschloss Grillenburg is located in the Tharandt Forest. It lies in the district of the same name of Kurort Hartha in the Saxon town of Tharandt in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, on today's holiday route Silberstraße between Dresden and Freiberg. The Saxon State Office for the Preservation of Monuments records the ensemble within the three surrounding ponds as a cultural monument, including archaeological ground monument protection. A similar site, in terms of its Romanesque origin, is Schloss Osterland near Oschatz, from the same period.

The whole site had been for sale by the Free State of Saxony in cooperation with the town of Tharandt since Expo Real 2015 and is to be developed in the coming years into a meeting and conference centre for the Technische Universität Dresden in cooperation with other universities and research institutions. The planning permission for this was created in June 2023 and becomes legally effective in summer 2024. The start of construction was planned for autumn 2024. First the existing buildings are to be secured. The transfer agreement between the town of Tharandt and TU Dresden was signed on 16 August 2024 during the public presentation of the project after the planning permission had been created, and completion was announced for 2028. In March 2025 securing work began on the Neues Jägerhaus.

Construction was started with the ground-breaking ceremony by the Saxon Minister-President Michael Kretschmer and the Rector of TU Dresden, Ursula M. Staudinger, on 9 September 2026, after the building permit had been granted and all funding had been received. The building work is now to be completed in 2029. The lodge will receive two conference rooms for 90 people each, and seminar rooms. Three guest houses in modular timber construction with 90 twin rooms and 160 beds will be newly built.

Machine-translated from “Jagdschloss Grillenburg” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Grillenburg Hunting Lodge ranks #7,020 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #751 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,041 times in the last 60 days, more than 56% of the atlas. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Dresden, 20 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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