Torgau and Hartenfels Schloss (Castle)

Another great weekend. We traveled to Torgau on Saturday to visit the Hartenfels castle and take in the local sites. They keep big, fat brown bears in the moat! I won't even try to summarize the history of this castle, a very worthy testament to monarchy and nobility, but I did find this excellent guide to the castles in the Saxony region of Germany and a description of this castle can be found in this guide along with information and photos on many, many others. Beware the PDF file is about 8 MB and will take a while to load.



Our traveling companions were Rachel and Bran and their two kids (a permanent link to their blog is at the top of this blog). We went by regional train from the Hauptbahnhof in Leipzig and walked from the train station to the castle through the large square in Torgau with its impressive fountain. After touring the castle, we had lunch at a hotel/restaurant on the square which we chose only for the reason that it was in the sunny and not shady side of the square because it's October after all and even sunny afternoons are starting to get chilly.