Schloss Purschenstein

Neuhausen, Germany, Germany

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Schloss Purschenstein is a medieval castle in Neuhausen/Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany, built around 1200 by Bohemian knight Boresch I (Borso) as a toll and escort fortress guarding the salt road from Leipzig to Bohemia via the Old Bohemian Track.

Owned by the von Schönberg family for over 500 years after multiple early owners, it features a massive 42-meter-high bergfried tower with 2.85-meter-thick walls, Renaissance door panels and spiral stairs, a Baroque north wing extension, and neo-Gothic elements, with family crypts in the park.

Damaged in the Thirty Years' War and severely by a 1989 fire during GDR use as a children's home and cultural center, it was renovated from 1990-2001, then transformed by the Dutch Praagman family in 2005 into a castle hotel with restaurant and wedding facilities.