Wildenfels: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Wildenfels is situated in a hilly, green landscape framed by the ridges of the Ore Mountains. Local attractions include Wildenfels Castle, three churches, and the Niedere Schönau Mill. The castle stands on a spur of land above the town and forms a distinctive part of the townscape. In Wildenfels, you can combine the search for a holiday apartment to rent with information about the local landscape, culture, and trails.

Culture

The Chinese Cabinet at Wildenfels Castle features an intricately detailed wall covering with chinoiserie silk appliqués. The Blue Salon retains silk wallpaper with colourful embroidery and an interior design influenced by the Orient. The castle houses museum facilities and a contemporary gallery with exhibitions for visitors. It can be explored with trained guides. The cultural programme includes concerts, literary evenings, and castle festivals.

In the municipality of Wildenfels, Härtensdorf is home to the Church of the Three Maries, which features an altarpiece with folding wings by Peter Breuer and epitaphs of the Lords of Wildenfels. Schönau is home to St. Rochus Church, with altar figures by Peter Breuer.

Nature

The Wildenfels Intermediate Mountains are a protected landscape area between Wildenfels, Hartenstein, and Langenweißbach. They extend from the Mulde floodplain over the Aschberg to the Augustenhöhe and are bordered to the south by the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde. The limestone quarry area of the Wildenfels Intermediate Mountains is part of the Natura 2000 network and is protected as a Special Area of Conservation.

Trails

The “Museum in the Landscape” route leads to the Schönau lime kiln, quarries on the Grünauer Höhe, and a lime ring kiln before returning to Wildenfels. A ten-kilometre mill hiking trail runs from Zschocken through Wildenfels to Schönau. A circular route from Wildenfels via Langenweißbach and back uses nine information boards to explain the Wildenfels Intermediate Mountains.

In the wider Zwickau tourism region, the Wildenfels Intermediate Mountains are described as an excursion area for hiking. The wider Zwickau tourism region also provides digitised hiking trails and an overview map of cycling and hiking trails. A local tour in Wildenfels is partly inaccessible because part of it runs across private property.

The local history room at the park pond provides information about Wildenfels as a “gingerbread town”. The destination page Wiesenburg is also available for further searches.

To the higher-level travel overview: Zwickau Land.

More destinations

More places in the same destination:

Lichtenstein, Werdau, Meerane, Callenberg, Kirchberg, Gersdorf, Oberwiera.