Posterstein Castle Express - Dunk into history
Razed to the ground
More than 60 manors existed once in Altenburg county. Many of them were torn down after the land reform in East Germany in 1945. Others, still existing manor houses are vacant today and dilapidated. We are documenting their history and their destiny.
“Maybe tree is just a sobbed word…”
The lyrical headline traces back to a poem called “Tannenfeld”, which was found in the patient’s records of Rudolf Ditzen, better known as the author Hans Fallada, who was admitted to the mental hospital (“Heilanstalt für Nerven- und Gemütskranke“) in Tannenfeld in January 1912.
Earth shakes in Posterstein
The keep was shaking, rocks where roling down the hill – that’s what eye witnesses reported, who experienced the earth quake on March 6th 1871 in Posterstein. However, the castle survived. Deep cracks in the bridge and the keep where restaurated in1997 and 2013.
Emperor Barbarossa’s knights
The today’s Altenburger Land had been Slavic since the early Middle Ages. Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa safeguarded his gained rule with small castles. Posterstein is one of them.
Salonnières from Löbichau between Metternich and Talleyrand
The salon of the duchess of Courland in Löbichau near Posterstein was one of the most popular salons around 1800. The hostess knew Europe’s most important politicians in person.
Riewe collection: Christmas cribs of the world
Here you find Christmas cribs from Israel and colourful cribs from South America, wood cribs from Bavaria and such, made by traditional manufacturers in the German Erzgebirge. Czech and Austrian straw cribs stand side by side with African wood cribs and German tin cribs, some fit in a nutshell, others can’t be overseen.
Next event:
The exhibition shows Art objects made of wax and dust, collected in Posterstein Castle, by the German artist Wolfgang Stöcker from Cologne. Dust reflects transience, human traces in history, preservation or loss of the past, new life for hidden remains – a metaphor for the hard labour of archivists, librarians and museum professionals as well!
Museum Burg Posterstein will commemorate the illustrator Christian Anton Goering (1836-1905). Although he was the son of a craftsman he succeeded in a career as an explorer, painter and animal preparator. Like Alexander von Humboldt before he went on two expeditions to South America (1856 and 1866) and conducted botanical and geographic studies.