Rammenau

Rammenau
Rammenau
Location of Rammenau within Bautzen district
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Bautzen
Municipal assoc.	Bischofswerda
Government
• Mayor	Hiltrud Snelinski
Area
• Total	10.76 km2 (4.15 sq mi)
Population (2014-12-31)
• Total	1,394
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	01877
Dialling codes	03594
Vehicle registration	BZ
Website	www.rammenau.de

Rammenau (Sorbian: Ramnow) is a municipality in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, Germany. It is known as the birthplace of the well-known German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Rammenau Castle was built between 1721 and 1735 by architect Johann Christoph Knöffel for Ernst Ferdinand von Knoch, chamberlain of king Augustus II the Strong. As Knoch went bankrupt with the immense costs of this project, Franz Josef von Hoffmann purchased it in a foreclosure auction in 1744. In 1879 it was sold to the von Posern family, with the last owner, Margarete von Helldorff née von Posern, being expropriated by the communists in 1945. Today it is owned by the State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony and open to the public, housing a museum with period furniture.

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  Rammenau Castle, front side

• Castle Rammenau Germany 101.JPG

  Rammenau Castle, park side

• Castle Rammenau Germany 102.JPG

  Park

• Rammenau Chinesisches Zimmer.jpg

  The chinese room

• Sog Bulgarisches Zimmer.JPG

  The pompejian room

• Rammenau Blaues Zimmer.jpg

  The blue room

Literature

• Rammenau. In: August Schumann: Vollständiges Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon von Sachsen. Volume 8, Zwickau 1821, p. 747 f.

External links

• Rammenau in the Digital Historic Index of Places in Saxony (Digitalen Historischen Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen)