Service
Opening Hours
March 25 to October 31, 2016
- Tue - Fri: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sat, Sun, public holidays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
November 2016 to March 2017
- closed
Subject to modifications.
Ticket Rates
- Full rate 5,00 EUR
- Reduced rate 2,50 EUR
- Full rate: EUR 5.00
- Reduced rate*: EUR 2.50
- 2 adults and up to 4 children**: EUR 12.00
- 1 adult and up to 2 children**: EUR 7.00
- Group rate (15 people and more): EUR 4.00 per person
- Group rate for pupils: EUR 1.50 per person
- Annual ticket: EUR 9.00
Combined ticket: Altzella Monastery Park and Nossen Castle
- Full rate: EUr 7.00
- Reduced rate*: EUR 4.00
- 2 adults and up to 4 children**: EUR 15.00
- 1adult and up to 2 children**: EUR 9.00
- Group rate (15 people and more): EUE 5.00 per person
Guided tours
- Guided tour surcharge: EUR 2.50 per person
- Guided tour surcharge for pupils: EUR 1.50 per person
- Minimum surcharge for guided tours: EUR 35.00
Free admission:
- Children aged 5 or younger
- People visiting the castle on their birthday
- Accompanying adults of severly disabled people (entry »B« iin the disability pass)
- Tour guides
- Tour bus drivers accompanying a tour group
- 1 accompanying adult per 10 pupils
- Journalists for reporting purposes (valid identification required)
- Holders of the schloesserlandPASS
Subject to modifications.
How to find us
Whether by car, bus or train: You can always reach the Altzella Monastery Park easily. Click here for details of how to get there.
Guided Tours & Group Rates
You would like to know more about the history of the monastery and park?
Here you can find out all information on guided tours and offers for groups.
schloesserlandPASS
You want more? More Schlösserland there is with the schloesserlandPASS.
Free admission to more than 50 palaces, castles and gardens in Saxony.
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.
