Waldschlösschen, Heritage monument in Dresden, Germany

Waldschlösschen is a two-storey former hunting lodge on a sand hill above the Elbe, its south front clad in light-grey sandstone ashlar with a stepped central gable, pointed-arch and keel-arch windows, a balcony with quatrefoil balustrade and four pinnacles. The remaining sides are timber-framed with grey-painted board cladding. The rectangular plan and first-floor hall follow classicist and Baroque models, while the Gothic forms serve as facade ornament.

Camillo Marcolini, an Italian who rose from silver page to influential Saxon court official, had the hunting lodge built from 1800; the architect is unknown. The French sources name Johann Daniel Schade and a date of 1790, but the German article and the identity record state 1800 and an unnamed architect. In 1829 it became a tavern, later passed through several owners, served a brewery in the 20th century, was nationalised after 1945, and decayed in the 1990s and 2000s before a renovation from 2009 to 2013.

The name means "little forest castle". The building gave its name to the Waldschlösschen brewery, the Waldschlösschen district and the Waldschlösschen Bridge. The sandstone main portal is crowned by the alliance coat of arms of Camillo Marcolini and his Irish-born wife, née O'Kelly, a detail a visitor can spot above the blue door.

The building sits in a wooded area on the edge of the Elbe and is now part of a private clinic, so access to the interior is generally not open to casual visitors. The exterior and surrounding grounds can still be seen from nearby paths, making it worth a short walk through the area.

The building's sandstone south facade carries the alliance coat of arms of Camillo Marcolini and his Irish-born wife, née O'Kelly, above the main portal. A variant of the same arms appears on the Palais Brühl-Marcolini in Friedrichstadt, linking the hunting lodge to the family's city palace.