Schloss Röhrsdorf, Heritage château in Röhrsdorf, Dohna, Germany.
Schloss Röhrsdorf is a stone castle built in Saxon tradition, with symmetrical wings and ornamental details adorning its facade. The building displays the typical layout of Saxon noble residences, featuring multiple stories and generously proportioned interior spaces.
Röhrsdorf was built as a Rittergut in the 16th century, first documented in 1436 or 1583. In 1741 it passed to Carl Adolph von Carlowitz, and in the 18th century the estate was extended with a manor house, the actual Schloss. A fire in 1890 devastated the building, which was rebuilt slightly altered and given a four-storey stair tower. The Carlowitz family held it until 1945; after Soviet requisition it became state property in 1948.
The village church, rebuilt in 1748 by Carl Adolph von Carlowitz for 1429 Thaler, twelve Groschen and one Pfennig, holds the patron's box with the von Carlowitz coat of arms. At the courtyard gate and house entrance, a slightly altered family coat of arms shows the trefoil mirrored horizontally with a capital C above it; its colours are heraldically incorrect.
Schloss Röhrsdorf stands on a plateau at 238 m, about 4 km west of Dohna's town centre and roughly 15 km southeast of Dresden's old town, with the village of Röhrsdorf a few metres to its south. The site is on the southern edge of Dresden's municipal boundary, so approach from Dohna or the surrounding orchards between Lockwitz and the Müglitztal. The building has served as a hotel since the 1990s, so access depends on the current operator.
The courtyard entrance and the house door of the building adjoining it carry a slightly altered coat of arms of the von Carlowitz family: the triple clover is mirrored horizontally and topped with a capital C. The heraldic colours on the courtyard gate are not correct. The single-storey building west of the gate, with a divided hipped roof and sandstone-framed windows, still shows Baroque forms.
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