Itinerary of the trip:
Day 1: Rammenau - stylish baroque
Visit of the baroque castle Rammenau
Dinner at the hotel
Day 2: Bautzen and Herrnhut - history and traditions
Guided tour of Bautzen
Guided tour of the Herrnhut Star Manufactory
Dinner in the Sorbian restaurant Wjelbik in Bautzen
Day 3: Görlitz and Ostritz - in the border triangle
City tour with guide through Görlitz
Guided tour of the "Holy Sepulchre" in Görlitz
Guided tour of St. Marienthal Monastery in Ostritz
Dinner at the hotel
Day 4: Zittau Mountains - Saxon-Bohemian Cultural Landscape
Guided tour of Zittau
Guided tour "Zittau Lenten Cloths
Round trip through the Zittau Mountains
Guided tour of the Oybin Mountain Church
Journey by narrow-gauge railway to Jonsdorf
Dinner at the hotel
Day 5: Spreewald - lifeline of water
Boat trip in the Spreewald
Things to know:
Baroque Rammenau Castle
- is located in Westlausitz
- former manor dating from 1717
- several rooms in the style of classicism
- English-style landscape park
- used as a military hospital during the First World War
- occupied by the Red Army in 1945
- From 1951 to 1962, the castle rooms were used for school purposes, as a summer studio for the Dresden College of Fine Arts and as a country study centre.
- 1967 Opening of the history museum in the castle
- Summer 1968 Opening of the castle restaurant
- Since the beginning of the 1990s, the castle has been owned by the Free State of Saxony (Staatlicher Schlossbetrieb).
Herrnhut Star Manufactory
- Herrnhut Star as the origin of all Christmas stars
- Businessman Pieter Hendrik Verbeek invented the first stable, composable star at the end of the 19th century
- Since 2010, production, show workshop and restaurant have been united under one roof
- World of discovery for children right next to the manufactory since March 2018
- traditional production of the paper stars
- Watching the employees gluing the plastic stars
- Trying it out for yourself as a "lace maker
"Holy grave" in Görlitz
- Replica of the most important parts in the large Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
- Part of the ensemble of the church of St. Peter and Paul and the Stations of the Cross
- Testimony to late medieval piety and European landscape architecture
- Consists of the Double Chapel of the Holy Cross, the Salbhaus and the Sepulchral Chapel
St. Marienthal Monastery in Ostritz
- oldest women's monastery of the Cistercian Order in Germany
- with garden of biblical plants, chapel of the cross and monastery market
- with the easternmost vineyard in Germany
- on the Via Sacra and the Oder-Neisse cycle path
- near the nature reserve in the monastery forest
Zittau Lenten Cloths
- The large Zittau Lenten Cloth from 1472 tells the story of God and mankind in 90 pictures.
- Small Zittau Lenten Cloth from 1573 shows the Crucifixion of Christ framed by 30 symbols of His Passion.
- The large cloth, 6.80 m wide and 8.20 m high, is one of the oldest and largest lenten cloths in existence
- Only 18 copies have survived worldwide, including the large one in Zittau
Oybin Mountain Church
- not a museum, but a church service building for the congregation
- The rock on the north side of the church forms the boundary of the room.
- the profile of the bedrock was taken into account during construction
- Also known as the small wedding church
