Start here: the month decides what is inside the building, and then you pick a way out
The castle’s own 2026 tariff, in full, is on the tickets and prices page
What one admission opens, and which listings carry one
On the left, what is behind the door in the season you arrive in. On the right, the six listings that reach this castle and where each one stands on the ticket, read from their own inclusion lists.
Inside the castle
- The Federzimmer, 20 March to 1 November. A bed and wall hangings carrying roughly a million peacock, pheasant, guinea fowl and duck feathers woven into canvas, bought by Augustus the Strong in 1723 for his Japanese palace, moved here in 1830 and back on show since 2003 after a nineteen-year restoration. What you are looking at.
- The dining room and its 71 antler trophies, most of them between 270 and 400 years old, including the heaviest red deer antler in the world — 19.8 kg and nearly two metres across. Room by room.
- Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella, 20 November to 28 February. Original costumes, recreated film scenes, multimedia staging and the riding saddle the actress actually sat on. While it is up, the baroque rooms are gone. The winter exhibition.
- A HistoPad tablet comes with the baroque ticket. The Fasanenschlösschen in the park is a separate building with its own season, its own price and guided tours only. The Little Pheasant Castle.
Which listing carries a ticket
- The guided day from Dresden names entry to Schloss Moritzburg in its own inclusion list, at seven euros a head, along with Meißen and the porcelain works and the day’s public transport. The eight-hour day, reviewed.
- The private Prague day trip sells a ticket pair — the Dresden Zwinger and Moritzburg — and gives you about two hours here. The one Prague trip with tickets.
- The scavenger hunt is Moritzburg and nothing else: eleven sealed envelopes posted to you, on foot, at your own pace, in German only, and no admission in it. The hunt, honestly.
- The other three get you there and stop. Two Prague cars with English-speaking drivers and no tickets, and a Meißen wine van that stands outside for half an hour. All six, compared.
The visit, in the order it comes
From the village to the island, through whichever exhibition is up, and then out into the park. Two to three hours covers it comfortably.
Moritzburg is a village with a palace standing in the middle of its water. Augustus the Strong had four smaller ponds flooded into one so that the building would sit on an island, and the approach across the water is the part everybody photographs before they have bought anything.
- Schlossallee and the water — The walk in from the village and the car parks. This is the view on every postcard of Saxony, and it costs nothing.
- The counter, and the HistoPad — Admission is handled at the castle. Between 20 March and 1 November the ticket comes with a HistoPad tablet; last entry is 16:45.
- The dining room — 71 antler trophies, most of them 270 to 400 years old, and among them the heaviest red deer antler in the world at 19.8 kg. The best room in the house.
- The Federzimmer — The feather room: about a million peacock, pheasant, guinea fowl and duck feathers worked into canvas. Baroque season only.
- The outer staircase, in winter — From 20 November the film exhibition takes the building, and a replica of the golden shoe stands on the stairs where the shoe is lost in the film.
- The Schlossteich and the park — The lake and the grounds around the building, which is where most of the afternoon actually goes if the weather holds.
- The Fasanenschlösschen — Built 1770 to 1776, out in the park, open 30 April to 1 November, Thursday to Sunday. Guided tours only, ten people at a time, at 11:00, 12:15 and 14:00 — and beside it a miniature harbour and a painted brick lighthouse 21.8 metres high.
Hours and the November gap are on the opening hours page, the rooms on what to see, and the afternoon-shaped question on how long it takes.
How I put a day at Moritzburg together
Look at the month before anything else
Baroque rooms run 20 March to 1 November. The castle then shuts completely from 2 to 19 November. Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella runs 20 November to 28 February, and while it is on the baroque rooms are not there. Both cost the same. Which month suits you.
Decide whether the castle is the day, or part of one
If it is the whole day, you are booking a way out and buying admission at the castle. If Meißen or Dresden is in the day too, one of the guided listings does the driving and two of them carry the ticket as well. The six, side by side.
Pick a date on the widget
Confirmation comes by email and every one of the six cancels free up to 24 hours before, which matters in Saxony in March.
Work out the last fifteen kilometres
Bus 477 from Dresden-Neustadt towards Radeburg stops at Moritzburg Schloss, a few minutes’ walk away. The other way is the S1 to Radebeul Ost and then the Lößnitzgrundbahn steam railway, which is slower and much better. Every route out.
The guided day from Dresden, with live dates
This is the listing that does the most work for a first visit: about eight hours from Dresden with a live guide in English, French, German or Italian, taking in Meißen and the porcelain works as well as the castle. It is one of the two listings whose own inclusion list names entry to Schloss Moritzburg, and the day’s public transport is in it too. It is priced per group of up to ten rather than per head — one fare, whether two of you go or eight — and it rates 4.6 out of 5 from 3 ratings. Food is not included, and it cancels free up to 24 hours before.
Three very different ways to end up at Moritzburg
A guided day out of Dresden, four hours of riddles in the village, and a private car from Prague. Today’s exact figure is on each listing. Two of the three are one fare for the whole party rather than a price per head, which is why they read high beside a per-person figure: a couple pays what a group of eight pays, and a group of eight pays what a couple pays. If you are one or two and the castle itself is the day, the riddle box is the small outing and bus 477 or the steam railway is the cheap way out, with admission bought at the castle.
| Carries a castle ticketFrom Dresden: Trip to Meißen and Moritzburg | Moritzburg: Scavenger Hunt Self-Guided Walking Tour | Prague: Dresden and Moritzburg Private Day Trip with Tickets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What this actually is | A guided day from Dresden taking in Meißen and Moritzburg | A posted box of riddles that walks you through the village to the castle | A private car from Prague, with Dresden in the morning |
| Price | ~€420 | ~€40 | ~€395 |
| Priced per | Group of up to ten | Group of up to ten | Group of up to three |
| Castle ticket | Included — named in the listing at seven euros a head | No. Admission is yours to buy at the castle | Included, sold as a pair with a Dresden Zwinger ticket |
| Time at the castle | Part of an eight-hour day | As long as you like; the hunt itself runs about four hours | About two hours, inside an eight-and-a-half-hour day |
| Language | English, French, German or Italian, with a live guide | German only, and self-guided | An English-speaking driver, not a licensed guide |
| Who it suits | A first visit that also wants Meißen | Families and anybody who reads German | A day trip out of Prague with no driving of your own |
| Rating | 4.6 from 3 ratings | 4.8 from 12 ratings | No rating on the platform yet |
| Free cancellation | ✓ Up to 24 h before | ✓ Up to 24 h before | ✓ Up to 24 h before |
| Book this → | View → | View → |
Illustrations
Schloss Moritzburg, and the way out to it
The palace, the water, the antler room, the shoe on the stairs, the Little Pheasant Castle and the steam railway — drawn, not photographed, because no photograph of this castle is ours to publish. Click any one to see it full-size.
The six listings that reach this castle
Two of them carry a castle ticket, one of them is Moritzburg and nothing else, and one stands outside for half an hour. All six, sorted by situation.
Castle ticket includedCastle admissionFrom Dresden: Trip to Meißen and Moritzburg
Moritzburg, and nothing elseMoritzburg: Scavenger Hunt Self-Guided Walking Tour
Castle ticket includedCastle admissionPrague: Dresden and Moritzburg Private Day Trip with Tickets
Driver, not a guidePrague: Private Trip to Dresden, Moritzburg and Meißen
Eleven hours from PraguePrague: Dresden and Schloss Moritzburg Day Trip
Thirty minutes, outsideDresden: Meißen, Wackerbarth and Moritzburg by Van
What people wrote afterwards
Every written review on the six listings, and there are not many. All six listings, reviewed.
Our guide Herr Vögel was excellent in every way — his knowledge and kindness led us to be fully immersed in the history and atmosphere of one of the most magnificent cities in Saxony.
A lovely scavenger hunt. We had a great deal of fun even though it rained a little.
A varied, informative way of making the walk to the castle interesting.
The hunt was very well put together. The information at each station was good too.
We saw so much in one full day. George was simply the best — friendly, with a lot of patience, and on time.
A superb trip with an excellent driver. Moritzburg Castle will delight all fans of the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella.
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Five things people ask me on the train out
Answered from the castle’s own pages and the six listings’ own inclusion lists, and left unanswered where I do not know.
Which exhibition will be on when I come?
Baroque rooms from 20 March to 1 November, daily 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 16:45. Nothing at all from 2 to 19 November. Then Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella from 20 November to 28 February, daily 09:30 to 17:30, last entry 16:15, with single closed days over Christmas, New Year and in January and February. The two never overlap and they cost the same. The calendar, month by month.
What size is the golden shoe?
The most-asked question about this castle, and the honest answer is that it does not have a size in any useful sense. The replica on the outer staircase was moulded to Libuše Šafránková’s foot, which is why it is long and narrow and fits almost nobody — that is the joke the castle is making. It is there to photograph, not to put a foot in. The shoe on the stairs.
Can I just walk into the Little Pheasant Castle?
No. The Fasanenschlösschen is a separate building in the park with its own season — 30 April to 1 November, Thursday to Sunday, 10:30 to 15:30 — and it can only be entered on a guided tour of at most ten people, at 11:00, 12:15 or 14:00. There is a combined ticket with the castle. How the tours work.
How do I get out there without a car?
Bus 477 from Dresden-Neustadt towards Radeburg stops at Moritzburg Schloss, a few minutes from the gates. The better way, if you have the time, is the S1 to Radebeul Ost and then the Lößnitzgrundbahn, a narrow-gauge steam railway that runs to Moritzburg and is worth the trip on its own. Both routes, and the roads.
Where do I leave the car?
There are four car parks. Schlossallee 2 is paid, open around the clock and has lavatories; Radeburger Straße and Kalkreuther Straße are paid as well; and one out at the Fasanengarten is free, about ten minutes’ walk from the castle. I do not have a figure for what the paid ones charge and I am not going to guess at one. The four car parks.
Visiting Schloss Moritzburg, explained
Schloss Moritzburg is a baroque hunting palace standing on an island in a lake, 15 km north of Dresden. Duke Moritz of Saxony built a hunting lodge here between 1542 and 1546; Augustus the Strong had Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and Zacharias Longuelune turn it into a country seat between 1723 and 1733. The island is not natural: four smaller ponds were flooded into one so the building would have water all the way round it, which is why the approach still stops people in the road.
The month decides what is inside the building
This is the fact I would want somebody to tell me, and almost nobody does. Moritzburg does not add a seasonal display to a permanent collection. It swaps its entire contents twice a year, for the same money.
From 20 March to 1 November the baroque exhibition is up, daily from 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 16:45. On 2 November the castle shuts completely, and it stays shut for about three weeks. Then, on 20 November, Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella opens and runs to 28 February, daily 09:30 to 17:30, last entry 16:15, with single closed days over Christmas, at New Year, and scattered through January and February. While the film exhibition is on, the baroque rooms are not there to see.
So a February morning booked for the Federzimmer is the wrong month, and a May afternoon booked for Cinderella’s saddle is the same mistake the other way round. Neither is the cheaper ticket. They are two buildings sharing one address. The calendar, with the closed days.
Who sells the ticket, and which listings carry one
Schloss Moritzburg handles its own admission. You buy it at the castle or on the castle’s own site, schloss-moritzburg.de, and there is no Moritzburg entry listing on GetYourGuide at all — I went through both of the platform’s Moritzburg pages and every listing on them before this site was written. That is not a problem to solve. Admission is twelve euros for an adult in either season, the counter takes about thirty seconds, and the castle’s own site sells the same ticket. The 2026 tariff in full.
What the platform sells is the journey, and that is worth paying for, because the last fifteen kilometres are the awkward part of the day. Six listings reach this castle, and exactly two put a castle ticket in your hand: the guided day out of Dresden, which names entry to Moritzburg in its inclusion list at seven euros a head alongside Meißen, and a private Prague day trip selling a Zwinger-and-Moritzburg ticket pair. The other four carry you and stop at the door — one of them, a wine van, stands outside for half an hour and never goes in. All six, with the ticket column.
The two rooms worth the trip
In the baroque season, the dining room is the best thing in the house and I will argue about it. Seventy-one antler trophies, most of them between 270 and 400 years old, and among them the heaviest red deer antler in the world — 19.8 kilograms and nearly two metres across. It is a room that stops conversation.
The Federzimmer is the one the guidebooks lead with: a bed and wall hangings carrying roughly a million peacock, pheasant, guinea fowl and duck feathers woven into canvas. Augustus the Strong bought the set in 1723 for his Japanese palace, it came to Moritzburg in 1830, and it has only been back on show since 2003 after nineteen years of restoration. Room by room.
The shoe, and the question everybody asks
The 1973 Czech-German film was shot here, and the winter exhibition gives the whole building to it: original costumes, recreated scenes, multimedia staging, and the riding saddle the actress sat on. A replica of the golden shoe stands on the outer staircase, where the shoe is lost in the film.
The question that arrives more than any other is what size it is. The answer is that it was moulded to Libuše Šafránková’s foot, which makes it long and narrow and a poor fit for almost everybody — and that is the joke the castle is making. Photograph it and move on. The shoe on the stairs.
The park, and the building most people miss
Out in the grounds stands the Fasanenschlösschen, the Little Pheasant Castle, built between 1770 and 1776. It is a separate building with its own season and its own rules: 30 April to 1 November, Thursday to Sunday, 10:30 to 15:30, and you can only go in on a guided tour of at most ten people, at 11:00, 12:15 or 14:00. Beside it are a miniature harbour and a painted brick lighthouse 21.8 metres high, which is not a sentence I expected to write about Saxony either. How the tours work.
Getting the last fifteen kilometres
Bus 477 runs from Dresden-Neustadt towards Radeburg and stops at Moritzburg Schloss, a few minutes from the gates. It is the sensible route. The other one is the S1 to Radebeul Ost and then the Lößnitzgrundbahn, a narrow-gauge steam railway, which is slower, louder and much better, and is the way I go. By car it is the A4 exit Dresden-Wilder Mann or the A13 exit Radeburg. Of the four car parks, three are paid and one, out at the Fasanengarten, is free and about ten minutes’ walk away. Every route out there.
What I would actually do
Pick the month for the exhibition you want. Give the castle two to three hours, more if the Little Pheasant Castle is open and you can make one of its three tour times. If Moritzburg is your whole day, take the steam railway and buy admission when you arrive. If Meißen is in the day too, or you are starting from Prague, let one of the six listings drive — and check which of them carries a ticket before you pay. Whether it is worth your afternoon.
Frequently asked questions
Can I buy a Moritzburg Castle ticket on GetYourGuide?
No listing on the platform sells this castle’s admission on its own. The castle handles its own admission, at its own counter and on schloss-moritzburg.de, and what the platform carries is the journey — the guided day out of Dresden, the car from Prague, the van that stops for half an hour. Two of those six listings do include a castle ticket inside a bigger day, and which two is worth knowing before you pay for any of them. The six, with the ticket column.
What are the opening hours at Schloss Moritzburg?
The baroque exhibition runs 20 March to 1 November 2026, daily 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 16:45. The castle then closes completely from 2 to 19 November. The winter exhibition runs 20 November 2026 to 28 February 2027, daily 09:30 to 17:30, last entry 16:15, with a handful of closed days over Christmas and in the new year. The full calendar.
How much does it cost to go into Schloss Moritzburg?
Twelve euros full and ten reduced, with children aged six to sixteen paying four euros fifty, and both exhibitions charging the same. The baroque ticket includes a HistoPad tablet. There are combined tickets with the Fasanenschlösschen and with the Käthe Kollwitz Haus. The castle’s whole published 2026 tariff, figures and all, is on the tickets page.
Is Moritzburg the castle from Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella?
Yes. The 1973 Czech-German film was shot here, and from 20 November to 28 February the castle gives the whole building over to an exhibition about it — original costumes, recreated scenes, multimedia staging and the riding saddle the actress sat on. A replica of the golden shoe stands on the outer staircase, where the shoe is lost in the film. The winter exhibition.
Can I see the feather room in winter?
No, and this is the thing that catches people out. The Federzimmer is part of the baroque exhibition, which ends on 1 November. From 20 November the film exhibition replaces it, at the same price, and the baroque rooms are not on show until the spring. If the feathers are what you came for, the month decides the trip. The feather room.
How do I get from Dresden to Moritzburg?
It is 15 km. Bus 477 runs from Dresden-Neustadt towards Radeburg and stops at Moritzburg Schloss, a few minutes’ walk from the gates. The other way is the S1 to Radebeul Ost and then the Lößnitzgrundbahn narrow-gauge steam railway. By car it is the A4 exit Dresden-Wilder Mann or the A13 exit Radeburg. Every route out there.
How long do I need at Moritzburg?
Two to three hours covers the building and a walk round the water. Add an hour if you want the Fasanenschlösschen, which only runs guided tours at 11:00, 12:15 and 14:00 and only from 30 April to 1 November. The day trips out of Prague give you less than that, and the van tour gives you half an hour outside. How long a visit takes.
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