Altenburg (dpa/th) – The Altenburg Castle and Playing Card Museum is presenting its special exhibition on death and mourning in the ducal family of Saxony-Altenburg with items on loan from all over Germany. With exhibits from Dresden, Freising, Kassel and Weimar, for example, “From the valley of tears to paradise – dying, death and grief at the Altenburger Hof” should open in time for the long night of the museums on Friday, the Castle and Playing Card Museum announced on Tuesday.
Several copper engravings, paintings and an epitaph from the castle church are intended to provide insight into the decline of the House of Saxony-Altenburg, which began with the early death of the last Duke Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1657-1672) was sealed. The exhibition connects the kinship ties of the family members around the older ducal line and shows the dramatic story that led to the extinction of the line, it said.
