Altenburg: Skat Card Game Birthplace, Lindenau Museum, and the Thuringian Ducal Residence on the Pleisse
Altenburg has a population around 38,600 and lies on the Pleisse river in eastern Thuringia, about 45 kilometres south of Leipzig. The card game Skat was invented here around 1810, and Altenburg remains the spiritual home of German card culture. The Spielkartenmuseum (Playing Card Museum), housed in Schloss Altenburg, documents 500 years of card-making. The Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik (ASS) still produces playing cards.
The Lindenau-Museum holds a remarkable collection of early Italian panel paintings, alongside plaster casts of classical sculpture and modern art. Schloss Altenburg, the former ducal residence of the Ernestine Saxe-Altenburg dynasty, dominates the town from a porphyry rock. The Rote Spitzen, twin red brick towers from a Romanesque church, are the oldest standing structures. The Grosser Teich, an urban lake, provides recreation. Leipzig is about 40 minutes by train. Adult companionship is governed by Thuringian law.
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Altenburg has a population around 38,600 and lies on the Pleisse river in eastern Thuringia, about 45 kilometres south of Leipzig. The card game Skat was invented here around 1810, and Altenburg remains the spiritual home of German card culture. The Spielkartenmuseum (Playing Card Museum), housed in Schloss Altenburg, documents 500 years of card-making. The Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik (ASS) still produces playing cards.
The Lindenau-Museum holds a remarkable collection of early Italian panel paintings, alongside plaster casts of classical sculpture and modern art. Schloss Altenburg, the former ducal residence of the Ernestine Saxe-Altenburg dynasty, dominates the town from a porphyry rock. The Rote Spitzen, twin red brick towers from a Romanesque church, are the oldest standing structures. The Grosser Teich, an urban lake, provides recreation. Leipzig is about 40 minutes by train. Adult companionship is governed by Thuringian law.
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