The south side of Wermsdorf is deforested and looks out over a fairly flat landscape (being at the southerly end of the North German Plain) of agricultural land set out in crops.

Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony extended the palace in 1743 and it became one of the largest baroque hunting lodges in Europe.

One year later, the statue of Albert as a huntsman in a hunting cap and with a double barrel shotgun was unveiled in the presence of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony .

[6] At the Old Hunting Lodge, there is a monument stone to commemorate ten unknown concentration camp prisoners who died in the vicinity on a death march in Spring 1945 from Stalag VIIIC in Zagan/Poland, and were buried in the Anstaltsfriedhof.

There are numerous cycling routes of low elevation and trail-ways suitable for walking scattered throughout the nearby Wermsdorf Woods.