Schloss Dahlen

Dahlen Castle (German: Schloss Dahlen) is a castle built between 1744 and 1751 in the small town of Dahlen, located in Saxony, Germany.

Since the beginning of the 13th century there was a noble dwelling in Dahlen ("Edelhof, lat. curia"), falling under the administration of the bishops of Naumburg. This developed into a feudal estate "Rittergut" granted by the monarch as a lien to various aristocrats who were bound in turn to maintain law and order and protect the key road between Oschatz and Leipzig. In the 14th Century the overlord ownership of Dahlen changed from the Bishopric of Naumburg to the Crown of Bohemia and then in the middle of the 15th Century to the Wettin royal family.

In 1305 at the time of Bishop Ulrich of Naumburg, Dahlen was sold to Bodo IV Von Ilburg, lord of Liebenwerda, for the sum of 500 Marks of Freiberg Silver to Otto V von Ilenburg, lord of Uibigau. Later, it was returned to the possession of the Naumburg Stift and in 1367 Bishop Gerhard sold with Strehla, Leisnig, Tiefenau and Elsterwerda to Herzog Polk, Elector of Schweinitz and Margrave of the Lausitz; on his death it returned once again to Naumburg. Thereafter, in the time of the Emperor Carl IV, Dahlen was owned by the royal house of Saxony after an agreement was reached on 23 April 1459 between King George of Bohemia, the Frederick, Elector of Saxony and Duke William of Saxony.

In 1383 Dahlen's owner was Luthold von Torgau, thereafter Hanns von Schleinitz of the Meißen branch of the family, whose father, Heinrich von Schleinitz of Seerhausen died in 1449 and was buried in the von Schleinitz Chapel in the St. Afra Church in Meißen.

In 1618 his descendant Heinrich von Schleinitz sold Dahlen for 44,200 Bohemian Guilders to his brother-in-law Christoph von Loß the Younger, who on 22.07.1619 sold it to the John George I, Elector of Saxony. After 1630 the Elector then sold the estate to his Privy Councillor David von Döring who had recently been ennobled and owned many estates in the area (Seelingstädt, Großsteinberg, Bohlen, Mühl, Börln).

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