About me, and about this site
I am Antje Reinhardt. I live in Radebeul, twenty minutes down the valley, and I go out to Moritzburg on the narrow-gauge steam railway more often than a grown woman needs to. This site is mine: an independent English guide to one castle on one island, written because the questions people ask me on the platform at Radebeul Ost are the same questions every time, and most of them have answers nobody has bothered to write down in English.
This site is not the castle
Worth saying at the top, because the name of the site invites the confusion. Schloss Moritzburg is a state castle in Saxony with its own staff, its own counter and its own website, schloss-moritzburg.de, which is where the castle speaks for itself. I do not work for it, I cannot let you in, and nothing here is an official notice. Where my page and the castle’s own page disagree, the castle is right and I want to hear about it.
The two things this site exists to say
The first is the one that surprises people. The castle’s own admission is not sold on the booking platform at all. I looked at every Moritzburg listing there is, and not one of them is an entry ticket. You buy admission at the castle, or on the castle’s own website, and that is the whole of it. What the platform sells is the journey: the guided day out of Dresden, the car from Prague, the van that stops for half an hour. Of the six listings I follow, exactly two put a castle ticket in your hand as part of the package, and saying which two is the most useful thing this site does. The six, compared, and what the counter charges.
The second is the one that spoils afternoons. The castle swaps its entire contents twice a year, at the same price. The baroque rooms — the feather bed, the seventy-one antler trophies, the tablet that explains them — are on show from late March to the first of November. The building then closes completely for about three weeks. From late November to the end of February it holds the Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella exhibition, and the baroque rooms are gone. I have watched somebody arrive in February for the Federzimmer and find a film exhibition, and nobody had warned them. The calendar, month by month, and which month to pick.
Out of those two comes everything else here. If you are coming for the film, come in winter. If you are coming for the feathers, do not. And if you are booking a trip out from Dresden or Prague, check whether it carries your admission before you assume it does. The six listings, reviewed one at a time.
Where the facts come from
A short list, all of it read on 18 September 2026, and nothing that is not in it. The hours, the tariff, the seasonal closures and the exhibition dates are the castle’s own, from its own pages, and the tariff is reproduced once, as a table, on tickets and rates. The building history, the Federzimmer and the antler collection come from the castle’s own material and from English Wikipedia, and the dated version sits on the history page. The six listings publish their own inclusion and exclusion lists, and those are reproduced line by line rather than summarised, because a summary is where an admission fee quietly becomes included. Where I can tell you something the sources do The pictures on this site are drawn, not taken. I have no photograph of Moritzburg that is mine to publish, so every image here is a generated illustration of the thing the page is describing. They are meant to show you what sort of place this is, not to stand as a record of what you will see. Where I can tell you something the sources do not — that the antler room is better than the feather room, that the free car park is a ten-minute walk and worth it — I say so in my own voice and you can weigh it accordingly.
What I will not print
I will not invent a number. Nobody publishes what the paid car parks charge, so the parking page says they are paid and stops there. I do not know whether the Schlosspark charges anything, whether you can go up inside the little lighthouse, or what the castle’s dog and photography rules are, so none of those appears as a fact anywhere. The castle has not announced its spring 2027 reopening date and I am not going to guess it. And I will not invite you to try the golden shoe on: the replica on the outer staircase was moulded to one actress’s foot, it is long and narrow, and it fits almost nobody. That is the joke, not an invitation. The shoe, and the question everybody asks about it.
How prices and ratings are written here
Two conventions, applied everywhere. In prose, platform prices are spoken approximations rather than exact figures, because the live widget beside them is the thing that is actually true and a number typed into a sentence goes stale the day a listing changes. The one exception is the castle’s own published tariff, which is a source document and is printed exactly as the castle publishes it, once. Rating counts follow the same logic in reverse: anything above a hundred is written open-ended, and anything below a hundred is written exactly, because there the small base is the point being made. On this site every count is below a hundred and two listings have no rating at all, which the pages say out loud rather than hide.
How the site pays for itself
The booking widgets and tour cards go to GetYourGuide, which pays me a commission on bookings made through them. You pay the same either way, and I earn nothing at all on the thing this site is named after, because the castle does not sell its admission there. The affiliate disclosure sets out what that does and does not change. Hours move, exhibitions move, listings get edited between one week and the next; if a page here is behind the castle’s own notice, tell me and I will fix it. Contact.