Welcome to Colditz Castle!

Excellently equipped, modern rooms, an uncomplicated atmosphere, great cuisine and tailored activity programmes draw guests from across the globe to this Hostel. It presents itself as an open place to stay, welcoming not just school classes, families and conference participants but also countless musicians, who have an excellent opportunity to practise at the nearby Saxon State Music Academy.
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Opening hours
The house is open

7.00 a.m. - 10.00 p.m.

The reception is open

7.00 a.m. - 10.00 p.m.

Check-in

2.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Closing time

Open all year except

19. Dec 2022 - 26. Dec 2022

Prices 2022

B&B from Half board from Full board from
€ 30.50 € 38.50 € 44.50

Prices 2023

B&B from Half board from Full board from
€ 31.50 € 39.50 € 46.50

Locations & directions

The Youth Hostel is located inside Colditz Castle, some 50 km south of Leipzig between Grimma and Rochlitz.

The Youth Hostel mostly has four to six-bed rooms, with a total of 161 beds. Each room is equipped with an en-suite shower/WC. There are also 1 dining room, 1 open terrace, 1 barbecue area, 1 disco room, 1 reading room, TV room, 1 room with games machine, 1 table tennis room and a former guardhouse. For conferences and seminars as well as extracurricular teaching and workshops there are 7 function rooms of up to 96 square metres in size. A projector, screen, OHP, flip chart, pin boards etc. may also be borrowed.

Room Floor space
Max. number of participants
  • cinema
    cinema
  • parliament
    parliament
  • block
    block
  • U-shaped block
    U-shaped block
  • circle
    circle
 Floor Rent per day
E23 Disco 95 sqm 80 70 40 40 35 GF € 100.00
E24 Medienraum 72 sqm 60 50 35 35 30 GF € 50.00
E22 Wachstube 57 sqm 50 45 30 30 25 GF € 50.00
120 Tagungsraum mit Terrasse 61 sqm 50 45 35 35 30 1 € 50.00
220 Scherbenkabinett 41 sqm 20 20 20 20 20 2 € 35.00
221 Süd 36 sqm 20 20 20 20 20 2 € 35.00
320 Kaminzimmer 41 sqm 20 20 20 20 20 3 € 35.00
321 Billardraum 37 sqm - - 20 20 20 3 € 35.00
322 Süd 32 sqm 20 20 20 20 20 3 € 35.00
Request meeting room
Conference equipment

CD player, DVD player, flip chart, internet access (WiFi), microphone system, overhead projector, pin board, presentation case, projector, screen, speaker's desk, stereo system, telephone in conference room, TV set, video recorder, large fixed LCD projector

Room Floor space Height
Max. number of participants
  • Choir
  • Orchestra
 Floor Daylight Rent per day
Disco 95 sqm 3.1 m 80 50 GF yes € 100.00
Medienraum 72 sqm 2.9 m 60 30 GF yes € 50.00
Raum 120 61 sqm 3.0 m 50 30 1 yes € 50.00
Request rehearsal room
Rehearsal room equipment

piano, stereo / PA equipment

Staging options

staging options in the vicinity (0.1 km), recording studio in the vicinity (0.1 km)

Our tips for your stay

A small town with a population of 5000, Colditz is nestled on both sides of the Zwickauer Mulde. Today numerous historic buildings bear witness to an eventful past. The town's centrepiece is its market square, with its Renaissance town hall, the Church of St. Egidien and the St. Nicholas Cemetery Chapel. The historic old town is located on the right bank of the river. As a symbol of the city, today Colditz Castle continues to attract many tourists from around the world.

Sightseeing and excursions

  • NEAR THE HOSTEL
  • Schönbach has a basket museum and Romanesque hillside church, while in Nimbschen you'll find the ruins of an abbey where the future wife of Luther stayed between 1509 and 1523, and in Kössern there are a hunting lodge, pavilion and manor house. Grimma awaits you with its old town, castle, Museum of Local History or Göschenhaus Museum, or why not pay a visit to the Water and Ship Mill Museum in Höfgen-Kaditzsch?
  • EXCURSIONS AND WALKS
  • Diverse walking trails in Saxony's castle and heathland region
  • on foot or by bike through Colditz Forest or
  • along the Mulde
  • Colditz: Local History Museum, Castle Museum, "Heimatturm" tower with viewing platform
  • towards Leipzig, Hainberg ruin
  • Schönbach: Basket Museum, Romanesque hillside church
  • Kössern: hunting lodge (built in 1718); pavilion (built in 1820) and
  • manor house (built in 1522)
  • Großbothen: Museum of Wilhelm Ostwald's Colour Theory
  • Nimbschen: abbey ruins - between 1509 and 1523 the residence of
  • Katharina von Bora, Luther's future wife; "alte Fähreiche" ("old ferry oak")
  • Grimma: District Museum; Göschenhaus Museum (Seume memorial);
  • old town and castle, former Fürstenschule ("prince school"),
  • town hall and early Gothic Church of Our Lady
  • Höfgen-Kaditzsch: "Denkmalschmiede" Gallery; Mulde ferry;
  • Museum of Water and Ship Mills
  • Podelwitz: Water Castle
  • Zschadras: Museum of Dental History
  • Thümmlitzwald nature reserve,
  • Nimbschener Wald protected landscape area