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Königstein Fortress
in Saxon Switzerland

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Upcoming Events

2018/08/19 - Sunday 12:00–16:15

Sunday Music in the Garrison Church

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

Sunday Music in the Garrison Church

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

Thunder of Cannons above the Elbe Valley

More than 250 cannoneers in uniforms and historic personalities bring history alive. 30 exact copies of historic cannons will be fired several times throughout the d...

What's happening?

1818 ZEITSPRUNG 2018 - Special exhibition

New exhibitions in George's Castle

17.07.

2018/07/17

On 27 July 2018 we celebrate 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

Special Exhibition

17.07.

2018/07/17

The special exhibition "1818 ZEITSPRUNG 2018" (time laps) presents Caspar David Friedrich‘s view of the world in the mirror of current art. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Artists’ Association Künstlerbund Dresden e. V.

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.

Welcome at Königstein Fortressin Saxon Switzerland

Upcoming Events

Sunday Music in the Garrison Church

Sunday Music in the Garrison Church

Thunder of Cannons above the Elbe Valley

What's happening?

New exhibitions in George's Castle

Special Exhibition

New Exhibition in the Well House

Welcome at

Königstein Fortress
in Saxon Switzerland