Welcome to Altzella Monastery Park
A warm welcome to Altzella Monastery Park. The former Cistercian abbey was the most important monastery in the central German region during the Middle Ages, having been founded by the Margrave of Meissen, Otto von Wettin who was known as Otto the Rich. The abbey was the graveyard of the Wettin family. The Cistercian order ran the abbey from 1162 until 1540, when it was dissolved during the Reformation. Around 1800, long after the monastery had been closed down, the court gardener Huebler was commissioned by the Elector to layout a Romanticist landscaped park in the English style around the ruins of the monastery. This park was the appropriate setting for the mausoleum in which the remains of the ancestors of the Wettins rest in peace.
Leave yourself be spirited away by the combination of medieval ruins and the Romanticist landscape with its earthy trees and twisting pathways, and accompany us on a visit to the Altzella Monastery Park.
