Burgk Castle

The "Freital Municipal Collections" contain information on the city's history and life at Burgk Castle, as well as the Municipal Art Collections, which document art developments in the Dresden region between 1890 and 1950. Part of the collection includes nine classical paintings by Otto Dix, as well as works by artists Willy Kriegel, Wilhelm Lachnit, Wilhelm Rudolph, Pol Cassel, Otto Lange, Curt Querner, Christoph Voll, and Ewald Schönberg. The long-time director of the city museum and art collections was Hellmuth Heinz, who donated his private art collection to the city before his death. Since 1993, Friedrich Pappermann's art collection has been housed in the castle, which the Dresden artist donated to the museum in 1993 and for which he received honorary citizenship of Freital in 1994.

From the castle park, it is possible to enter the "Tagesstrecke Oberes Revier Burgk" visitor mine. An associated exhibition on mining in the Plauen Ground features, among other things, "Dorothea", the world's first electrically operated mine train. It was built in 1882 by Siemens & Halske for the Oppelschacht in Zauckerode. The mining exhibition includes a technology garden that displays the equipment required for mining in the immediate post-war period.

Burgk Castle can be used as a conference and event center; for example, there is the "Steigersaal" with space for about 100 people and the smaller "Knappensaal" for about 50 people. There is a wedding hall for weddings at Burgk Castle. In August, the "Burgker Schlossnacht" takes place in the castle courtyard, and at Easter, the "Burgker Mittelalterspektakel" (Burgk Medieval Spectacle). During Advent, there is a Christmas market on the castle grounds.

The castle park, with a small pond surrounded by larches, plane trees, and ginkgo trees, is located south and east of the manor house. The mouth of the current visitor mine is also located in the castle park. In addition to many sculptures, the Rotkopf-Görg-Denkmal (Red-Head Görg Monument), inaugurated in 1861, is also located in Burgk Castle Park.

It is dedicated to the legendary figure Rotkopf Görg, to whom a mountain spirit is said to have appeared on the Windberg. This spirit asked Rotkopf Görg, a poor musician, to play for a dance in the mountain spirit's castle, hidden in the nearby Windberg. He agreed, and as a reward, the mountain spirit filled his hat with coal. Rotkopf Görg, however, did not know what to do with it and poured it out in front of his house. The next day, he noticed that a small lump of coal had gotten caught in his hat, which had turned to gold overnight. The other coals he had thrown away, however, had turned to ash.

In 1904, the monument was mentioned by Cornelius Gurlitt in the Descriptive Representation of the Older Architectural and Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony as follows: A curious work [...] is the larger-than-life group of a minstrel and the gnome tempting him with money scattered into his hat.