02797 Oybin
www.burgundkloster-oybin.com
Admission ticket
15-03-2015
4,00 EUR
The Oybin (Upper Sorbian: Ojbin) is a hill in Saxony, southeastern Germany, near by the city of Zittau and it is part of the Zittau Mountains. It contains the ruins of Oybin Castle, which Emperor Charles IV converted into his retirement home, and a Celestine monastery, founded in 1369. The 14th-century castle was "rediscovered" during the Romantic period, when the Saxon court painter Johann Alexander Thiele discovered the walls overgrown with vegetation. Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, and other Romantic painters painted the ruins and made them famous. As a result, the castle was cleared of debris in 1829 to prevent further deterioration. From the mid-19th century, more and more hikers and spa visitors flocked to the mountain. This was largely due to the opening of the narrow-gauge railway from Zittau to Oybin in 1890. In 1883, Alfred Moschkau opened a museum on the mountain for the first time.
Merci à Gilles K.
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