Dryfels Castle

A castle on a mountain spur that juts steeply to the east into the valley of the White Elster secured and controlled the river crossing of a road running east-west that connected the Orlatal near Auma with the Mulde Valley of Zwickau in the Middle Ages. Previously, a wall to the east secured the location.
By 1225, a knight from Berga was known to the Lords of Lobdeburg. The first mention of Berga on the Elster is recorded in a document from 1216 according to Dobenecker, II. 1718. In a document from 1310, the noble Otto von Lobdeburg-Berga appeared as a witness of the landgrave. As a result of the Vogtland War, the site came into the possession of the Landgrave of Thuringia in 1358. In 1378, the castle was pledged to Heinrich the Red, Vogt of Weida. In 1445, the Wettin family acquired the castle. Later, the Albertine line of Saxony-Zeitz was designated. In 1760, the Dryfels Castle was built on the remains of the fortress. Previously, during the GDR era, it was an estate. A fire in 1994 resulted in a structural closure for the well-preserved and economically stable complex until then. The castle was demolished in 2012.

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