Schloss Wolfsbrunn

Schloss Wolfsbrunn is the local name for an imposing hotel building in the village of Stein in the borough of Hartenstein in the south of Zwickau district in the German state of Saxony.

The villa was built in the years 1911–1913 in the Poppenwald forest not far from Stein Castle and near the river Zwickauer Mulde as a property for the major industrialist and mining businessman, Dr. Karl Georg Wolf.

The plans for this Art Nouveau structure were drawn up by Munich architect (Baumeister), Emanuel von Seidl.

After that, during the Nazi era the site acted as a youth hostel, a Reichsführer Interior School (Reichsführerinnenschule), a military hospital for officers and quarters for staff of the Wehrmacht.

[1] Later pioneer leaders were trained here, who qualified as junior teachers (Unterstufenlehrer) by taking additional instruction in education.

The well in front of the house from which it derives its name