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Definitely worth seeing

Hohenprießnitz Castle is a Baroque castle complex located in the Hohenprießnitz district of Zschepplin in the Nordsachsen district of Saxony. It was used by the Saxon Academy for Teacher Training and was sold to a private owner in 2011.[1] It is rented out for exclusive celebrations and events.[2] Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hohenprie%C3%9Fnitz

Location: Badrina, North Saxony Purpose: Inland fisheries, flood control Construction period: 1985–1986 Commissioning: 1989 The Schadebach 2 reservoir is located in North Saxony, very close to the Düben Heath. It is named after the Schadebach stream, which the reservoir impounds. It was built in the mid-1980s primarily for fish farming and the irrigation of agricultural land. To this day, the Schadebach 2 reservoir remains a fishing water and also serves as a flood control reservoir. The design of the Schadebach 2 reservoir was unique at the time: It was the first reservoir in Saxony with a thermoplastic core seal. The core seal was formed first, and then the dam was built around it. An additional sealing strip extends approximately fifty meters into the reservoir basin. Source: https://www.wasserwirtschaft.sachsen.de/TS_Schadebach_2.html

Definitely worth seeing

Definitely worth seeing

Nice place to rest, but without a roof 💃

As early as 977 there was a royal estate here, which Otto II donated to the episcopal church in Merseburg in that year. Later, not far from there, there was a manor house in the village, which was owned by various noble families one after the other. The manor house that stands there, which has now been structurally very altered, was built in 1677–78 by Christian von Klengel (1629–93), who had acquired the manor in 1675; the project was probably provided by his brother, the Saxon chief architect Wolf Caspar von Klengel. The castle, which stands not far from the former manor, is now a three-winged baroque complex based on French models, and was essentially built as a completely new building around 1702–1704 under Anton Albrecht Freiherr von Imhoff, who had acquired the property in 1699.[2] It is assumed that he hired the master builder Hermann Korb from his hometown of Wolfenbüttel for the work.[3][4] The weather vane on the middle tower cap bears the year 1699. The varied, three-winged structure is baroque, the two stair towers with the slanted windows are additions from a much later period. The covered gable of the somewhat oversized central projection, however, has a typical design language, as used by Korb. The octagonal open roof turrets with onion domes, like the side wings, were also built in the Hohenthal era, i.e. after 1724. In that year, the wealthy Leipzig merchant and war supplier Peter Hohmann acquired the castle, who was ennobled in 1717 and thus founded the Hohenthal family. The Counts of Hohenthal, who were active in Hohenprießnitz to varying degrees, owned the estate until it was expropriated in 1945. Above the portal is the Hohenthal-Pourtalès alliance coat of arms from 1894 (for the married couple Moritz Count of Hohenthal and Rosa, née Countess of Pourtalès). There is also a Hohenthal alliance coat of arms in the gable field. Hohenprießnitz belonged to the Electorate of Saxony or Royal Saxon Office of Eilenburg until 1815.[5] As a result of the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, the town became part of Prussia and in 1816 was assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the Province of Saxony, to which it belonged until 1952.[6] In the course of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, Hohenprießnitz was annexed to the Eilenburg district in the Leipzig district, which was incorporated into the Delitzsch district in 1994.[7] On January 1, 1999, Hohenprießnitz was incorporated into Zschepplin.[8] The Bavarian entrepreneur Konrad Obermüller acquired the castle in 2011 and inaugurated the renovated main building in 2014.[9][10] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenprie%C3%9Fnitz