Museum · Germany · Restored
Colditz Castle
Colditz Castle (Schloss Colditz) is a multi-wing Renaissance castle on a rocky spur above the Zwickauer Mulde in Colditz, Saxony, Germany. It has served various roles over the centuries — a princely residence, administrative centre and later institutional uses — and is widely known for its 20th-century use as the high-security POW camp Oflag IV‑C. The complex comprises several courtyards, a castle chapel and numerous residential and service wings.
Its prime
1694
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1694
The shape it held in its prime.
A large multi-wing castle of white‑washed masonry set on a rocky hill spur above a slow river, crowned by steep red‑clay tiled gables and a slender tower with a dark bulbous spire. The long façades are punctuated by many small rectangular windows in regular rows; multiple pitched roofs and stepped gables create a serrated roofline. Stone terrace walls and ramparts step down the slope into dense trees; lower town houses cluster along the river beneath the castle.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1694.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Colditz Castle — including 3 interiors: inner courtyard (adjacent living court), holy trinity chapel (interior), attic space beneath the steep roofs. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
Create History
Recreate Colditz Castle with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1694 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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Families who held Colditz Castle.
The families tied to Colditz Castle across its history — follow a name to its page.
Colditz
Seat of the Lords of Colditz from Thimo I in 1158 until Thimo VIII sold the castle in 1404.
Wettin
Bought by the Wettin rulers of Saxony in 1404 and later a royal residence of the electors of Saxony.
