Schloss Helmsdorf, Manor house in Stolpen, Germany

Schloss Helmsdorf is a long, two-story manor house with a saddle roof, volute gables and a round tower on its west side, built largely in the renovation of 1906–1909 by the Dresden firm Lossow & Kühne. The plasterwork facade and the preserved coat of arms of the von Schröter family remain visible. The building stands in Helmsdorf, a district of Stolpen, within a park of about 45,000 square metres encircled by the Wesenitz.

The estate passed to Moritz of Saxony in 1543, and the manor house was built by 1597, as dates on the building show. In 1648 Melchior Albhart acquired it, and his sons had it made a knight's estate. In 1906 Dresden banker Charles Friedrich Schmieder, whose wife descended from Franz Liszt, had architects Lossow & Kühne rebuild it almost entirely as a country residence.

The manor blends Renaissance architecture with early 1900s elements found on Saxon country estates, creating a layered design that visitors can observe throughout the rooms and portal.

The castle and outbuildings stood in a heavily dilapidated to ruinous state from 2020. Horst Richter bought the property on 3 September 2025 and has begun renovation work, so access is limited while work proceeds. The park of about 45,000 m² is encircled by the Wesenitz.

In 1937 the Saxon bakers' guild bought the estate and ran a training school here, also using it as a rest home; the school later moved to Dresden and the property was sold in 1999. The building stood largely unused and decaying from the 1980s until a private owner bought it on 3 September 2025 and began repairs.