The “Colditz story” is the cause for the fact that nearly each schoolchild in the United Kingdom of Great Britain knows the name of Colditz. The adventurous escape of English officers during the Second World War, who were imprisoned in the castle as prisoners of war, fills some books. Colditz not only fascinates with its historical old town, the castle sitting enthroned on a porphyry rock and the view from the local tower. The trips on foot, by bike or by Kremser into the Colditz Mulde Valley, the Colditz Forest and the Thümmlitz Forest offer the visitor a great variety of flora and fauna. With its historical town centre and its attractive densely wooded surroundings the town Grimma is traditionally a place of popular resort. Majestic Renaissance and Baroque buildings and the impressing town hall are visited by numerous guests as well as the legendary ruin of the former Zisterzienser Monastery Nimbschen. Katharina von Bora lived in this monastery, the later wife of Martin Luther.

It will be a real experience if you cross the river Mulde by ferry a few metres ahead and if you visit the ship and water mill in Höfgen and go by the Mulde ship to Grimma again.

In the midst of an attractive hilly landscape the traditional health resort Bad Lausick is located. The small idyllic town is characterized by well-kept bourgeois houses, the town hall, the Sankt-Kilian Church as well as the attractive spa district with the English style park. For 175 years health treatments have been carried out here, and the town has developed into an important touristic centre.

Tourist association Colditzer Mulde Land e.V.
Tourist office Johann-David-Köhler-House
An der Kirche 1
04680 Colditz
phone/ fax: +49 (0)3 43 81 / 4 35 19
E-Mail: fva-colditz@t-online.de

6,000 inhabitants, known for its ceramics industry, accessible via the A 14 exit Grimma, B 107, bus connection

Worth seeing: historical town centre, market place, Renaissance town hall, castle, museum of escape, museum of local history, local tower, zoo with game preserve, teaching path about the nature, Mulde unification of the Zwickauer and Freiberger Mulde in Sermuth

Offer: guided tours through the museum, castle and town, carriage trips, outdoor forest swimming pool, hiking route network in the Colditzer forest, bike hire, paragliding, town library, exhibitions, organization of daily programmes for tourist parties

Events: singers’ carnival, concerts, children and family festival in the zoo, Whit Sunday singing, birch festival, summer festival, Christmas fair

Rotsteg 3a
04668 Kössern District council Großbothen
phone: +49 (0)3 43 84 / 91 9 0, fax: 0 19 28

Accessible via the motorway A 14 exit Grimma, B 107, bus connection

Worth seeing: baroque hunting lodge, hill graves in the Thümmlitz Forest

Offer: skittle alley, local recreation Thümmlitz Lake, children’s playground, well-signposted hiking routes

Events: concerts in the hunting lodge

Town council – tourist office
Markt 16
04668 Grimma
phone: +49 (0)34 37 / 9 85 82 85, fax: 9 85 82 88
E-mail: fremdenverkehrsamt@grimma.de

19,000 inhabitants, accessible via the motorway A 14, B 107, rail connection, bus connection

Worth seeing: historical town centre, part of town fortification, town hall, bourgeois houses at the market, suspension bridge, Gattersburg, castle (near the destroyed Oöppelmann Bridge), Frauen Church, Monastery Church and former land and prince school St. Augustin

Offer: guided tours through the historical old town centre, which was rebuild after the flooding of the century in 2002, the Renaissance town hall and the low-lying cellar system Wurzener Straße, museum of local history, Seume memorial Göschenhaus and town hall gallery, hiking, cycling, horse-riding and water sports, broad offer of culture, leisure facilities: tennis, cart, shooting, skating hall and indoor swimming pool, bowling and mini-golf, fitness and climbing facilities, ticket service, information, accommodation service and souvenirs in the tourist office

Events: town and association festivals, music festivals, show-jumping events, boxing and triathlon championships among other sport events, concerts, cabaret, art exhibitions, stamp exchange markets

04668 Höfgen/ Kaditzsch (Parts of town of Grimma)

Denkmalschmiede Höfgen gGmbH Society for Land Culture in the Mulde Valley e.V.
Teichstraße 11-12
04668 Grimma
phone: +49 (0)34 37 / 98 77 0, fax: 98 77 12

Accessible either by ship from Grimma, by ferry over the river Mulde from the Monastery Nimbschen or on foot over the Grimmaer suspension bridge through the town forest, roads, A 14 Dresden – Leipzig exit Grimma into the direction of Mutzschen.

Worth seeing: Way of the Stones from Grimma via Höfgen to Förstgen, Jutta-Park with viewpoint tower, sculptures and sound installations, Museum Ship Mill, Museum Watermill , Weir Church Höfgen, passenger ferry Höfgen – Nimbschen, four-side courtyard Kaditzsch with studio gallery

Offer: exhibitions, events, audio-visual walks and guided tours, children and youth projects, sculpture courses, seminars on alternative energy systems

Events: concert series and festivals, traditional festivals like lamb market and fruit squeezing festival, children’s cultural days, figure theatre winter

District council Großbothen
Rotsteg 3a
04668 Großbothen
phone: +49 (0)3 43 84 / 91 90, fax: 09 19 28

Accessible via the motorway A 14 exit Grimma, B 107, bus and rail connection

Worth seeing: W.-Ostwald Memorial, church with sacristy cabinet from the 13th century, tourist information

Offer: modern Mulde Valley bath

Events: summer solstice festival, bath festival

Spa and tourist information
Straße der Einheit 17
04651 Bad Lausick
phone: +49 (0)3 43 45 / 2 79 03, fax: 2 24 66
E-mail: info@bad-lausick

Spa town just outside the city gates of Leipzig, 9,100 inhabitants, accessible via the B 176, B 95, motorway A 14 exit Grimma, rail connection, bus connection

Worth seeing: bourgeois houses in the town centre, St-Kilian Church with Silbermann-Trampeli organ, spa park with open-air theatre “Butterfly”

Offer: spa concert, guided town tours, herb hiking tours, slide shows, playing skittles, bowling, tennis, horse riding, fun and adventure catering service, spa and leisure bath RIFF, sauna

Events: well festival, town music festival

Tourist information Wurzen
Markt 5
04808 Ringelnatzstadt Wurzen
phone: +49 (0)34 25 / 92 60 00, fax: 92 94 24
E-mail: info@wurzeninformation.de

1040-year old town, birthplace of the poet and painter Joachim Ringelnatz, about 15,400 inhabitants, accessible via the motorway A 14, B 107 or B 6, long-distance connection railway Leipzig – Dresden, suburban train connection Leipzig, bus connection

Worth seeing: historical town centre (under a preservation order), market place with “old town hall” and Ringelnatz well, Dome St. Marien, Catholic Herz-Jesu-Church, Bishop Castle, Wenceslai Church with tower flat, cultural history museum with permanent Ringelnatz exhibition, Ringelnatz birthplace, post gate and post mile column, Wettin column, Pesthäuschen and memorial for the killed people during the First Word War on the “old graveyard”, area natural monument “Wachtelberg” with viewpoint tower, town park

Offer: fun and adventure bath, indoor swimming pool, tennis, playing skittles, bowling, cart trace, guided museum and town tours, exhibition gallery, guided dome and organ tours, tower ascents, guided tour through the Wenceslai Church with tower flat, carriage and Kremser trips, riding lessons, boat hire with ferry operation on the river Mulde, ticket service

Events: town, street and association festivals, concerts in the dome, in the Wenceslai Church and in the castle, readings, cabaret events, Mulde regatta, children and youth information day, choir festival

Support Association for Trade and Monument Maintenance e.V. – Castle Trebsen
Thomas-Müntzer-Gasse 2
04687 Trebsen
phone: +49 (0)3 43 83 / 9 23 10, fax: 9 23 50
E-mail: info@schloss-trebsen.de

4,500 inhabitants, accessible vie the A 14 exit Grimma, B 107 into the direction of Wurzen, bus connection

Worth seeing: Castle Trebsen (built in 1490/1521)

Offer: guided tours and exhibitions, stucco museum, seminars for monument maintenance and natural healing, project days for school classes, hostel, inn, landscape park on the river Mulde, herb and medicinal plant garden, biggest recovery centre for historical building materials

Events: blues and jazz nights, tradesman festivals, Heinrichs knight’s table, cabaret performances, concert and theatre performances

BKM Schloss Machern GmbH
Schlossplatz 1
04827 Machern
phone: +49 (0)3 42 92 / 7 20 79, fax: 7 28 30
E-mail: info@schlossmachern.de

6,600 inhabitants, accessible via the motorway A 14, B 6, rail connection, bus connection

Worth seeing: castle, castle park, village church

Offer: restaurant, exhibitions, seminars in the castle, tourist information in the castle

Events: Highland Games in September

District council
Dorfplatz 5
04808 Thallwitz
phone: +49 (0)34 25 / 92 33 20, fax: 92 82 85

Between Wurzen and Eilenburg (25 km from Leipzig), accessible via the motorway A 4, B 6

Worth seeing: Thallwitz Castle with parks, Schösser House with sundial, church and sawmill, Nischwitz - Castle with parks, church, Röcknitz – manor Röcknitz with parks, museum of local history, picnic area Canitz – facility with theme and nature gardens as well as historical open-air terrain from the Stone Age to the Slav Age

Offer: sports and leisure facilities

Events: riding and horse-jumping events, local festivals

District council Hohburg
Friedensstraße 36 04808 Hohburg
phone: +49 (0)3 42 63 / 70 80, fax: 7 08 27

Hohburger Mountains, accessible via B 6 turn-off in Wurzen, bus connection

Worth seeing: stone worker house, porphyry stone bridge, Hohburger Switherland, kaolin residual holes

Offer: skittle alley, library, museum, teaching path about the nature, fishing possibility, developed hiking route network, horse riding tourism

Events: vintage car meeting, folk concerts, country festival

Regional Traffic Association e.v. Brandis
Beuchaer Straße 1
04821 Brandis
phone: +49 (0)3 42 92 / 5 32 03, fax: 5 32 03
E-mail: info@verkehrsverein-brandis.de

10,000 inhabitants, accessible via the motorway A 14, B 6, bus connections, rail connection

Worth seeing: parish church, part of town Beucha with weir church, water tower and granite-porphyry stone bridges

Offer: sports hall, skittle alley, bowling alley (Beucha), library, youth club house, forest hut Waldsteinberg, marked hiking routes

Events: maypole setting, Easter market, Thanksgiving festival, vintage car meeting, Christmas fair