Bennoschlösschen

The two-story, solid manor house "of beautiful proportions" in the Renaissance style has an almost square floor plan with a gabled roof featuring two-zone volute gables and round windows. On the eaves sides, there is a central dormer window, also with a volute gable and round windows. The gables are oriented towards the four cardinal directions. The roof is a rafter roof with collar and king posts, for which only carpenter's joints with wooden nails were used.

The walls contain a few, tiny-looking square windows with shutters. The southwest corner of the building is supported by a "massive buttress" with a lean-to roof.

On the north side is a two-story extension with a flat roof, which disrupts the overall appearance.

The property consists of a large, highly walled vineyard, which is protected as a secondary monument.

In 1574, Hans Harrer, chamberlain to the Saxon Elector August, acquired the Hermsdorf knight's estate. This simultaneously made him the lord of Wahnsdorf. Harrer is considered the builder of the building known as the Stone House. The building is marked on a map by Matthias Oeder from the First Saxon State Survey around 1580/1600. The Stone House stands on the Unterberg. Immediately above it was the Rote Presse, a wine press used communally by several vineyard owners.

With his suicide in 1580 due to his involvement in his Elector's pepper trade and the enormous losses that resulted (see Konrad Rott), the property became a common old-Harrer inheritance, as written in a deed of enfeoffment from 1620. In 1620, Hans Harrer of Ringenhain, who was then enfeoffed, bought four vineyard sections with the vineyard house from the brothers Jacob and Ernst Kohlreuter for 3000 guilders, and already at the beginning of 1621, he sold the two adjacent vineyards Morgenland and Kössenberg, located uphill. His brother Ernst Harrer inherited the remaining property in 1621 and sold it "with the well-built stone mountain house, together with all tables, benches, folding beds and other movables, the household goods and half of the red press lying next to it" to the Chief Rent Master and "Director of the Floats" Christoff Felgenhauer.

In the 19th century, the manor house was given the name Bennohaus or Bennoschlösschen, in memory of Bishop Benno of Meissen. However, there is no evidence that the property was ever owned by the Meissen bishops. Only the local writer Karl Julius Hofmann wrote in 1851 in his work Das Meißner Niederland ... about the four narrow gables in "the shape of a bishop's mitre". In 1867, around this time in the possession of the noble family Metzsch-Reichenbach (before 1868 – after 1889), a stable building was added to the west of the house, and in 1896, the Ziller brothers added a story to the old press room extension on the north side.

After the phylloxera catastrophe, a nursery was established on the cleared land, while today the areas are replanted with vines and leased to the Hoflößnitz winery.

Around 1910, the Association for the Preservation of Old Cultural Monuments successfully campaigned for the restoration of a gable.

From 1992, the listed Bennoschlösschen was extensively restored by its owner in accordance with monument preservation guidelines. The residential house is rented out.