The newly signposted circular hiking trail connects the castle and park grounds of Zabeltitz with the pond landscape of the Röderaue and is one of the selected 12 Dresden Elbland hiking favorites.
The approx. 16 km long, flat and easily walkable circular route connects the castle, palace and baroque garden of Zabeltitz with the water and lake landscape of the Röderaue and leads through a charming landscape with alternating forest and open fields and meadows.
The tour starts either at parking lot 2 of the Zabeltitz Baroque Garden or in Frauenhain at the castle pond. It leads through forests with old trees, open land, pastures, fields, ponds and watercourses and connects two cultural landscapes in the district of Meißen, the Röderaue and the Großenhainer Pflege.
The cultural highlight of the tour is the Zabeltitz baroque garden with its castle and palace. Magnificent avenues, hedgerows and the pleasure grove invite you to take a stroll. Artistic sandstone figures set the tone and the splendor of the park is reflected in the water of the unique pond system. The palace, built on the site of the former moated castle, forms a charming ensemble of Baroque and Renaissance architecture with the "Old Castle". The park is one of the largest and most important preserved French-style parks in Saxony. It was created in its present form in 1728 by Johann Christoph Knöffel on behalf of the Imperial Count of Wackerbarth.
The Zabeltitz Farmers' Museum is housed in an old three-sided courtyard built around 1810. With numerous items from the farming past of the villages around Zabeltitz, it shows the life of a middle-class farming family in the Großenhainer Pflege region at the beginning of the 20th century.
St. George's Church in Zabeltitz is also well worth a visit, having been built in 1580/81 to replace the old wooden church dating back to 1495. The sandstone altar and baptismal font are the work of Dresden sculptor Christian Walther II. Imperial Count August Christoph von Wackerbarth is buried in the small village church.
There are numerous other natural and cultural sights along the way, such as the Geißlitz sheep bridge, the Zabeltitz fork weir, the village churches in Görzig and Frauenhain and the various pond landscapes and floodplains.
You can download the leaflet for the hiking favorite "Auwaldtour" here:
https://www.dresden-elbland.de/r/611576097?page=media%2Fdownload
