Schloss Eckberg
Neo-Gothic Elbe-slope castle hotel in a romantic park once famed for crocus meadows and rose walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Schloss Eckberg in Dresden follows Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg, a pharmacist with a toothpaste fortune and a botanist's training, who bought the neo-Gothic castle in nineteen twenty-five. It turns on the spring Sundays when he opened his gate to the city, and on the head gardener Emil Matzner and the crew who remade an overgrown park on the Elbe slope. Best heard on the garden side of the castle, near the wall that holds it up.
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