The Siebeneichen Castle is located on the southern slope of the Elbe opposite the Spaar Mountains upstream of Meißner's old town in the Siebeneichen district.
The estate was first mentioned in 1220. A noble family named themselves after seven oaks in the 12th century. Between around 1553 and 1555, the electoral councilor and court marshal Ernst von Miltitz built a three-storey renaissance palace with two corner towers and two dormitories, which has largely been preserved. In 1591 his son Nickel von Miltitz had a walled renaissance garden with water features laid out.
In 1748, under Heinrich Gottlob von Miltitz, a three-wing building was added on the west side, which has a nine-axis façade and a high mansard roof . At the beginning of the 19th century, Sarah Anna Constable , Dietrich von Miltitz's wife , had a 35 hectare landscape park laid out based on English models, which is one of the oldest in Saxony today.
Later landlords were Alfred von Miltitz from 1880 and his son Ludwig Carl from 1912. In 1945 the castle was expropriated and the estate was divided among new farmers . The castle was initially used as a natural history museum from 1946. From 1958 to 1991 the college for club leaders 'Martin Andersen Nexö' was housed in the castle, then the folk high school for adult education in rural areas. From 1997 it has been the seat of the Saxon Academy for Teacher Training, which is now part of the State Office for School and Education.
References:Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey. It was founded in about 1113 by Guillaume de Tancarville on the site of an earlier establishment of secular canons and settled by monks from the Abbey of Saint-Evroul. The abbey church made of Caumont stone was erected from 1113 to 1140. The Norman builders aimed to have very well-lit naves and they did this by means of tall, large windows, initially made possible by a wooden ceiling, which prevented uplift, although this was replaced by a Gothic vault in the 13th century. The chapter room was built after the abbey church and dates from the last quarter of the 12th century.
The arrival of the Maurist monks in 1659, after the disasters of the Wars of Religion, helped to get the abbey back on a firmer spiritual, architectural and economic footing. They erected a large monastic building one wing of which fitted tightly around the chapter house (which was otherwise left as it was).