Hubertusstock Castle

Between 1847 and 1849, Prussian King Frederick William IV had the hunting lodge built in the Bavarian or Swiss country house style to honor his wife, the daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria. It initially served as accommodation for court hunts and could be visited for a small fee. From 1869, high-ranking hunting parties took place here, and in 1898, by imperial order, the castle received its own railway connection with the Kaiserbahnhof Joachimsthal. Until the November Revolution in 1918, it was owned by the Hohenzollerns, briefly became national property, and then fell to the Crown Estate Administration. In 1926, it became the property of the State of Prussia. During the Weimar Republic, Presidents Ebert and Hindenburg used Hubertusstock for their hunting excursions. Adolf Hitler later gave it to Hans Heinrich Lammers and gifted it to him in 1944.