The best city hikes and walks around Grosser Maasdorfer Teich

The church, a Baroque hall church, originated from a medieval brick building and is probably the oldest structure in the city. It was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt due to fires. The current structure is likely the reconstruction from around 1718. The interior is dominated by the Leipzig green paint applied in 1831. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Katharina-Kirche_(Elsterwerda)

Elsterwerda's town hall has been located slightly south of the market square on Hauptstraße (Main Street) since 1879. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markt_(Elsterwerda)

Initially, a rectangular concrete fountain was erected in the park in 1967. Inside, there were five fountain-like water features. During the term of Mayor Wolf-Dieter Schwarz (1975–1991), bronze figures were later integrated. These were designed by the Hohenleipisch sculptor Hans Eickworth, who died in 1995, and modeled after the Elsterwerda town coat of arms used until 1994. The fountain's main figure is a bronze magpie. Two other bronze figures depict lilies. The lilies originally came from the coat of arms of the noble family von Köckeritz, who were the lords of Elsterwerda from 1367 to 1512. They were later also incorporated into the Elsterwerda town coat of arms. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markt_(Elsterwerda)

The war memorial, created in 1890 by the Elsterwerda sculptor Kranke in the form of an obelisk to commemorate the residents of Elsterwerda and Krauschütz who fell in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71, was originally located in a central position on the memorial square, surrounded by a green space and a popular subject for numerous contemporary postcards. After the Second World War, it was moved in 1946 to the nearby former town cemetery, which was transformed into a district memorial for the victims of fascism in 1982 and, after German reunification, into a municipal park.

The "Seminar Fountain" was called "God's Little Memorial Fountain" before its renovation on October 22, 1922. It honors the seminarians who fell in the First World War and serves as a daily reminder of this horrific period and its many victims for students of the Elsterschloss Gymnasium and other passersby. Of the 143 seminarians in the First World War, 43 died in the war. https://elsterschloss-gymnasium.de/77-news/1225-das-seminarbruennlein-ein-zeichen-der-wertschaetzung-und-ehrerbietung

The Pulsnitz is a tributary of the Black Elster River. It rises near Ohorn, not far from the small town of Pulsnitz in Saxony, and flows through the towns of Pulsnitz, Königsbrück, and Ortrand. The Pulsnitz flows through the Königsbrück and Krakau Heath, where the Königsbrück military training area was located between 1906 and 1992, and where the market town of Krakau existed until 1938. After approximately 60 kilometers, it now flows into the Black Elster near Elsterwerda. However, its original mouth, and thus the border between Saxony and Brandenburg, was located after the village of Tettau. This formed the historical tripoint of the Margraviate of Meissen with Upper and Lower Lusatia. https://www.pulsnitztal.de/pulsnitztal.html

The Saxon post milestone stands near the Protestant town church of St. Catherine on the main street. This distance marker, dating from 1738, is considered an important piece of cultural heritage and a landmark that shapes the townscape. In August 2025, the approximately 4.60-meter-high column was dismantled for professional restoration. https://www.elsterwerda.de/kursaechsische-postmeilensaeule-erstrahlt-im-neuen-glanz/

The historic half-timbered house, now the "Hans Nadler" Small Gallery, was built around 1720/1725. It underwent extensive restoration in the late 1970s. At its grand opening on April 15, 1980, the gallery was officially handed over to the local branch of the GDR's Cultural Association. Since then, the "Hans Nadler" Small Gallery has regularly hosted exhibitions of works by regional artists and other cultural events. A permanent exhibition of the painter Hans Nadler's work can be seen on the upper floor of the house. https://www.elsterwerda.de/kultur-tourismus/kleine-galerie-hans-nadler/