Towns

Discover architectural jewels, baroque and medieval Old Towns, world-famous buildings and imposing art metropolises and cultural metropolises.

Canaletto-Town Pirna, silk flower town  Sebnitz, Bohemian Decin, baroque town  Dresden, golden Prague, porcelain and wine town  Meissen

Canaletto Town Pirna

Pirna, the gate to Saxon Switzerland, is a contemplative provincial town with first-class restored Old Town core. Colorfully and dear-charmingly it presents itself to its visitors. Timeless through the narrow lanes walking one discovers over and over again affectionate details, architectural pieces of jewellery, bay windows, wells, impressive facades and imposing portals from the Renaissance time. The special already recognised at his time the Venetian Veduten-painter  and court painter of the Saxon elector Friedrich August III, Bernardo Bellotto, worldwide famously as a Canaletto, by Pirna. He painted many of his plants here. Most famous „The marketplace to Pirna“ is to be admired as a simulation in the Canaletto-House  in which today the tourist information of the town is. Pirna has developed in the course of the time to a right cultural town. Attend one of many town parties like the Pirna court night with which lights, candles and music illuminate the otherwise concealed dark courts and spread a magic mood in the town.

Tip! Are by the full hour in the city hall on the marketplace and observe how the lions hit her paws against the pear tree in the town coat of arms.

Pirna is removed approx. 25 minutes from the hotel. Accessible about the B172, the Elbe cycle track, by steamboat or with the city railroad in the 30-minutes tact

Silk flower town Sebnitz

The hometown of the artificial flowers and silk flowers is an at the same time approved resort in Saxony. A highlight for all flower lovers is the German artificial flower Sebnitz with show workshop in the silk flower manufacture, iron cellar with punching and mint tools, screening and historical sample room. Sebnitz has developed during the last years to a museum town. Here service beside the artificial flower museum the Africa house and the Caucasus house, a model road museum of the gauge TT and the primordial park with full-size dinosaurian. In winter the town on the border to Bohemia attracts above all ski friends. 3 ski runways 3 cross-country trails, 3 travelling distances and 1 sledge distance provide for plentiful ski fun.

Tip! Find out by an original old-timer motorcycle the two-wheel romanticism of the longest past times. Lending possibility in the railway station Sebnitz.

Tip! With the unique Saxon-Bohemian Semmering-railroad comfortably from Bad Schandau to Sebnitz by 7 tunnels with 983 m of total length, more than 2 big viaducts with Sebnitz and more than a total of 28 bigger and 41 smaller bridges. A distance like it it hardly gives and a great railway adventure!

Sebnitz is removed approx. 20 minutes from the hotel. Accessible over the high street past old village or with the ferry from Schmilka to Bad Schandau and further with the Semmering-railroad  to Sebnitz.

Bohemian Decin (Tetschen)

The Bohemian city of Decin with its situation directly on the Elbe is rich in cultural monuments and natural monuments. Main centre of attraction is the castle, a wonderful baroque construction. A special jewel is the matching early-baroque rose garden in which in summer concerts of the chamber music are organized. A confidential tip is the historical level recorder in the castle rock. On the precipitous west wall the water level was registered since the Middle Ages with the high water which struck the town. The Tetschner level recorder is with it a valuable hydrometric  monument and has no comparison in Central Europe. Important Renaissance monument is the stone Polzenbridge (old town- bridge) which was built in 1574 by Valentin Preussler. A statue team of three Bohemian land cartridges, the holy Wenzel, holy Veit and holy Johann von Nepomuk, decorate the bridge.

Decin is removed only 10 min. from the hotel. Accessible from Schmilka about Hrensko (Herrnkretschen), with the city railroad or the Elbe cycle track in only 13 km of distance.

Baroque town Dresden

Enchant yourselves by the baroque atmosphere of the Saxon capital of Dresden. Showpieces like the Church of Our Lady established again, the green vault, the kennel with the art collections, the court church and the Semperoper make the Elbe metropolise an imposing art town and cultural town. A noteworthy cherry stone is open to the public in the residence castle. 185 small faces are engraved on it. A true masterpiece!

Tip! Panometer Dresden shows baroque Dresden in 1756 on 360 °-gigantic panoramas. Are present if is still pottered around in the court church or if the night watchman shouts with the setting sun to the night's rest.

Dresden is removed approx. 45 minutes from the hotel. Accessible about the B172 / A17, the Elbe cycle track or with the city railroad in the 30-minutes tact. Or make, nevertheless, once quite a special journey on an old shovel wheel steamboat.

Tip! International Dixieland festival and steamboat parade in the mail.

Golden Prague

Prague counts to the most popular metropolises of Europe. If it lies in the beauty of her cultural monuments, in the imposing castle, the world-famous Karl's bridge, the baroque Old Town and the light atmosphere, Moldavia of the town lends … who knows! Best of all you make off yourselves a picture. One recognizes by the linguistic tangle fast, this town never sleeps, actually, and draws the whole year magically guests of all nations. Discover the winding lanes, magnificent churches and are by the full hour absolutely in the city hall clock. With this medieval wonderwork of the technology 12 apostles appear then in other respects she serves some surprises.

Tip! A coach day journey begins 3 x weekly directly from the hotel to Prague incl. travel management. Price: 23 EUR per person (reduction for children on inquiry)

Prague is approx. 1.5 hrs of the hotel A 17 removes Accessible about the B172 / A17

Porcelain and wine town Meissen

Porcelain and wine - two darlings of the Saxon elector August of the strong - help the city of Meissen to worldwide fame.

Northwesterly recumbent of the capital of Dresden, Meissen belongs to the most northern wine growing areas  in Germany, in the middle of the hearts of Saxon Wine-street. The smallest wine-growing area of Germany produces highly qualitative wines which are a rarity. The town was known by the first European porcelain manufacture and its typical “blue swords”. The manufacture received in 2008 the cultural price Europe. It is with its show workshop and the museum a true tourist magnet. Constructions in the Gothic and Late-Gothic style, as well as town houses from the Renaissance time form the unmistakeable scenery of the Meissen Old Town. Over and over again the points of the cathedral of the Albrecht's castle appear between the houses. Today this presents a museum with especially impressive interior decoration and a wall picture program of the 19th century which shows events from the history of Saxony, the Wettiner and the Albrecht's castle. The Albrecht's castle is the cradle of Saxony.

Events highlight is the Meissen wine party in which the earthy bars and restaurants of the town to a delightful glass Meissner wine invite. Music, acrobatics, good mood, dance and a festival move form a marvellous spectacle in the streets of the town.

Already known? The castle Proschwitz situated to the north of Meissen - "prince to the lip" is the biggest Saxon vineyard and is a member of the German predicate vineyards

Tip! In the tower of the Church of Our Lady there sounds daily a porcelain carillon (the first one of the world) from 37 white bells of porcelain.

Meissen is removed a little bit more than 1 hour from the hotel. Accessible about the B172 / A 17 and best of all with the city railroad directly from Schmilka to Meissen in richly one hour