Programme

Friday, 12.06.26 15th dark romantic summer evening
all Sides of Dark Music with DJane Inanna & Deejay L.A.R.S <Black in Black>
Admission 7 pm, 19:30 evening tours!
Start 8.00 pm
from midnight muted volume
from approx. 1 am cosy end at the campfire

Saturday, 13.06.26 Medieval castle festival
10 a.m. The gates open
all day long: all kinds of haggling, hot tub with sauna house, bow making and archery, Café Boheme
Archery, café boheme, camp life, leather crafts, market criers, knife grinders, sewing, show embossing, portrait painters, show potters, spinners, shoemakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, alchemists

For children: wooden toys, carousel "witches' flying school", straw castle, face painting, soap bubbles for young and old, children's crossbow shooting

Hearty food from the grill and pan, culinary delights, mead, wine, beer, coffee, cake, ice cream, Baumstriezel and much more.

11 am Puppet theatre for young and old

12 pm Fratres in Spiritu (show fight)

1 p.m. Gebrüder Nonsens (1st terrace)

2 p.m. Entry of the knights with delicious castle bricks (old German

Sugar cake) and sale

3 pm Puppet theatre for young and old

4 pm Nonsense Brothers (1st terrace)

16:30 Fratres in Spiritu (show fight)

5 pm Puppet theatre for young and old

6 p.m. Gebrüder Nonsens (Tavern)

7 pm Rosmarin in the Green Parlour

8 pm Brothers Nonsense (Tavern)

approx. 9.45 pm Arthus Thor - Excalibur

Illumination of the castle grounds - Tino Sauermann

(changes possible)

Sunday, 14.06.26 Baroque castle festival
10 a.m. The gates open
all day long: all kinds of groceries, hot tub with sauna house, bow making and archery, café boheme, camp life, knife grinders, sewing, show stamping, show pottery, spinners, blacksmiths, carpenters, alchemist

For children: wooden toys, fairytale tent, "witches' flying school" carousel, straw castle, face painting, soap bubbles for young and old, children's crossbow shooting

Hearty food from the grill and pan, culinary delights, mead, wine, beer, coffee, cake, ice cream, Baumstriezel and much more.

9.30 a.m. church service

11 am Puppet theatre for young and old

11.30 am Fratres in Spiritu (show fight)

12 pm Nonsense Brothers (tavern)

1 pm Puppet theatre for young and old

2pm Artus Thor - League of the Extraordinary

3pm Gebrüder Nonsens (1st terrace)

14:00 to 16:00 Bow tournament

3pm Puppet theatre for young and old

4 p.m. Gebrüder Nonsens (1st tavern)

5 pm Puppet theatre for young and old

6 pm Closing of the castle festival

Illumination of the castle grounds - Tino Sauermann

(changes possible)

How to get there

-by train

Travel from Dresden or Cottbus or Eibau or Liberec to Zittau. From there, take the Mandaubahn railway to Hainewalde. Ask nice Hainewalde residents for directions. It is on the Blue Ribbon. (small page)

-by bus

Bus route 1 runs from Zittau via Hainewalde, Großschönau to Waltersdorf and back. Get off at Hainewalde Schloß.

-by car

Drive towards Zittau on the B96. Shortly before Zittau (300 m before a petrol station) turn into Schenkstraße, then straight ahead and after the bridge turn right, next street left and then straight ahead. Keep your eyes peeled!

Please use the free car park: An der Scheibe 15, 02779 Hainewalde and follow the signs

Road toll

Friday, 12.06.26

7 € adult

Saturday, 13.06.26

8 € adult

5 € adult dressed

5 € Children from 12 yrs.

Children under sword length free

Sunday, 14.06.26

8 € adult

5 € adult in costume

5 € Children from 12yrs.

Children under sword length free