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Königstein Fortress
in Saxon Switzerland

Upcoming Events

Children with knight helmet in the exhibition IN LAPIDE REGIS

2018/10/21 - Sunday

Holiday Fun for Royal Children in Schlösserland Sachsen

Everyday changing holiday actions: make your own fortress souvenir with a historic printing press, draw like famous painters with the aid of a Camera Obscura or look for lost cannonballs ...

Historic-romantic Christmas Market “Königstein – a Winter’s Tale”

Traditional market of minstrels and craftspeople with the presentation of ancient arts and crafts

Advent Music in the Garrison Church

Fifteen minutes of organ concert every full hour from 12 to 4 p.m.

What's happening?

1818 ZEITSPRUNG 2018 - Special exhibition

New exhibitions in George's Castle

17.07.

2018/07/17

Recently we celebrated the opening of three new exhibitions in George's Castle - about the state prison, the construction history and the everyday life at the fortress around 1900

New Exhibition in the Well House

06.03.

2018/03/06

Since February 2018, the rooms at the Well House offer a new museum experience. 20 years after the former exhibition was opened in February 1998, it has now been newly designed and technically modernised.