Schlettau Castle

The origins of the current castle date back to the 14th century, when a Gothic palas was built. In the 13th century, the noble seat of the Imperial Ministerial Lords of Crimmitschau was a starting point for settlement in the Upper Ore Mountains. Later, in the 14th century, King Charles IV enfeoffed the noble family of Schönburg-Crimmitschau with the lordship over Schlettau. From 1413 to 1536, the property belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Grünhain, whose abbots expanded the palas into a castle around 1500. From the 16th to the 18th century, it was a center for electoral hunts and the seat of a chief forestry and game warden's office. Between 1814 and 1923, the castle housed a spinning mill and later an agricultural machinery factory. In 1931, it became the property of the town of Schlettau. Since 1995, the ensemble has been restored under the leadership of a support association, which now manages and utilizes it.