Burg Kriebstein

En un regard

Le château en bref

On a rocky spur above the Zschopau in central Saxony, Kriebstein Castle is among the best-preserved medieval fortresses in Saxony. A charter of 4 October 1384 first mentions the knight Dietrich von Beerwalde, who undertook to build the 'Krywenstein' on the site where his father had lived; the work, completed around 1400, is largely a single coherent building campaign. After his death in 1408 the castle went to his widow Elisabeth and then to his daughter Klara. In 1465 Hugold III von Schleinitz acquired the lordship and began a second major building phase, entrusted in 1471 to the architect Arnold of Westphalia, already active at the Albrechtsburg in Meissen. Owned by the von Schönberg family from 1665 and by the von Arnim family from 1825 to 1945, it was expropriated after the war, opened as a museum in 1949 and has belonged to the Free State of Saxony since 1993. It preserves wall paintings and the Kriebstein Room, a late Gothic panelled chamber.