Zuschendorf is a village in the municipality of
Pirna in the
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of
Saxony,
Germany. It was incorporated into Pirna in 1923. The place was mentioned for the first time in 1378.
Digitales Historisches Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen
/ref> It lies in the valley of the river Seidewitz
The Seidewitz is a river of Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Gottleuba, into which it flows in the town Pirna. Its source is in the Eastern Ore Mountains, near the village Breitenau. It flows through the town Liebstadt
Liebsta ...
, 4 km southwest of Pirna town centre, on the road to Liebstadt
Liebstadt is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated 12 km southwest of Pirna, and 23 km southeast of Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, l ...
.
In 1553, a castle was built there, where the von Carlowitz and von Bünau
The term ''von'' () is used in German language surnames either as a nobiliary particle indicating a noble patrilineality, or as a simple preposition used by commoners that means ''of'' or ''from''.
Nobility directories like the ''Almanach de Go ...
families lived for many years. The baroque-style church was built in 1560 and has been a part of the castle since the Thirty Years' War. During the communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
years of East Germany, a notorious antique dealer occupied the castle. After the fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
, the rundown castle that should have been torn down was luckily spared. The premises has been cleaned and now has an outstanding garden of hortensia, bonsai
Bonsai ( ja, 盆栽, , tray planting, ) is the Japanese art of growing and training miniature trees in pots, developed from the traditional Chinese art form of ''penjing''. Unlike ''penjing'', which utilizes traditional techniques to produce ...
, ivy and camellia.
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Landschloß and botanical gardens Zuschendorf
Pirna
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