Friedrichsmoor Castle

Around 1700, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm had a log cabin built on this site as a hunting lodge, clad and painted with oak planks. Between 1791 and 1793, this structure was replaced by the current single-story, three-winged half-timbered building at the behest of Duke Friedrich Franz I. The plans for this came from court architect Johann Christoph Heinrich von Seydewitz. During the construction period, there was a shortage of wood, as the Lewitz was almost completely deforested around 1770; however, the foresters of the Friedrichsmoor forest office ensured reforestation. Until 1918, the castle served exclusively for the hunting purposes of the regional rulers, with the red deer rut in September being an annual highlight. The building stood empty for most of the year and was only prepared before the hunting season.