Festung zum Sondereintrittspreis!

Grandparents pay 7 euros per person if they come with their grandchildren. Up to four children up to the age of 16 are admitted free of charge.

Activities:

11:00 to 15:00
Homemade bath salts
With everyday herbs and flowers, you can create your own individual bath salts in no time at all.

11:00 to 15:00
Tinkering like the alchemists

Can you spin straw into gold? A certain Rumpelstiltskin certainly could. What is the philosopher's stone? How did the alchemist Friedrich Böttger succeed in inventing porcelain? And what exactly is a homunculus? In the Middle Ages, some ingenious inventors began experimenting with elements in their secret laboratories. They created the most incredible things! Some alchemists even claimed to be able to produce gold.

One of them was Johann Hektor von Klettenberg, who took tens of thousands of thalers out of the pocket of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong for his gold production experiments - and ended up paying for it with his life.

The alchemist von Klettenberg is back at Königstein Fortress and is taking you on a journey of discovery. Dare to experiment with magnifying glasses, stones, paints, ropes, water swirls, metals, beeswax and inks! It's going to be magical!

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Clarissa and the Mouse venture into the underground vaults of Königstein Fortress and immerse themselves in the world of alchemy.