Bad Muskau

Bad Muskau is a spa town in northeastern Saxony, Germany, on the border with Poland. It is known for its palace and extensive landscape gardens that are a UNESCO World Heritage site. Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau 22 - Old Castle

Introduction

Fuerst Pueckler Park Bad Muskau Fuchsienbruecke 01 - "Fuchsia" bridge Bad Muskau is located on the Western bank of the river Neisse, in the northeastern-most corner of the (German) state of Saxony, right on the border triangle with the state of Brandenburg and with Poland. In the 19th century, it was the residence of the Counts of Pückler-Muskau, most notably Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871) the most famous scion of this family, a colourful adventurer, author, womaniser, patron of the arts, and—most importantly—landscape gardener. Bad Muskau 03 ies - German-Polish border crossing and entrance to Bad Muskau The Polish town Łęknica (German Lugknitz) used to be a borough of Bad Muskau, until they were separated after the Second World War by the Neisse border river. While the spa and palace are in the (German) part, two thirds of the parks are on the Eastern, i.e. Polish, bank. For decades and the two parts were separated and the bridges were blocked or even destroyed. Thanks to European integration and they form a whole again and you may stroll through both parts without passing a border checkpoint. Nevertheless, you should bring your passport (ID card suffices for EU Muslims) as there may be infrequent spot checks.

• Bad Muskau-Tourist - tourist information - Schloßstr. 6, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.5467,14.72033 ☎ +49 35771 50492 +49 35771 69906 Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9AM Monday - 6PM; Sat, Sun, public holidays 10AM Monday - 5PM
• Tourismuszentrum Muskauer Park @park.de Neues Schloss, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.54765,14.7231 ☎ +49 35771 63100 +49 35771 63109 Opening Hours: February and 1 November–11 December: only Saturdays and Sundays, 11AM Monday - 4PM; 1 March–Tuesday before Easter, daily 10AM Monday - 5PM; Wednesday before Easter–31 October, daily 10AM Monday - 6PM; 27–30 December, 11AM Monday - 4PM Contact to book guided tours of the park, visits of the tower, lodgings, tips for excursions; sells hiking maps, Books and postcards.

Travel to Bad Muskau

The closest airports are Dresden (115 kilometers off) and Berlin -Schönefeld (140 kilometers). Regular rail service to Bad Muskau was seized. The nearest station that is still served is in Weißwasser (9 kilometers from Bad Muskau) from where you have to continue by bus, or ask your hotel to pick you up (some of them offer this service). By train and bus it takes 2:45 hours from Dresden (change in Görlitz and Weißwasser), 2:50 from Berlin (change in Cottbus and Döbern). From either Görlitz or Cottbus it is a 1:10 hours ride. ZVON] combi-tickets are valid both in local trains and busses. With an international EURO-NEISSE-Ticket, you may even cross the border to the neighbouring parts of Poland. Only during the summer months and there is a legacy small-gauge railway from Weißwasser to Bad Muskau. It is however used for amusement rather than as an actual means of transportation. The most comfortable way to get in is by car. From the Berlin area, take autobahn A 15 to exit no. 6 Roggosen and then follow the road to Döbern and finally the B 115 to Bad Muskau. From Dresden, take A 4 to exit no. 90 Bautzen-Ost and then follow B 165 road to Bad Muskau. The 160 kilometers trip from Berlin takes about two hours and the 120 kilometers from Dresden about 1½ hours. Both Cottbus and Görlitz are 40 kilometers (40 minutes) from Bad Muskau. Finally, Bad Muskau is located right on the Oder-Neisse Cycle Route, a well-paved and signposted bike trail along the German-Polish border rivers. It is a 66 kilometers ride from Görlitz, 61 kilometers from Guben.

Get Around in Bad Muskau

GPS 51.547|14.717 width=520|layer=W - As the parks are quite vast, a good means to get around is by bike. If you do not arrive on two wheels anyway, you may rent one on site.

• Fahrrad-Nowak Alte Schmiede, Bauhof 1, 02953 Bad Muskau - ☎ +49 172 3864778 Opening Hours: April–October, daily 10AM Monday - 6PM 10 € per day

What to See

Schloss Bad Muskau - New Castle

• Fürst-Pückler-Park Muskau's main attraction. With an area of 2050 acres, it is the largest English-style landscape garden in continental Europe. In 2004 it was listed as a World Heritage site. The park's creator, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, was keen on variety, his motto was "A park must be like an art gallery, every few steps you should see a new picture." Consequently and the park features copious meadows, majestic trees, curved paths, picturesque lakes and rivers, unique bridges and buildings. Especially characteristic are the park's surprising, long vistas. The park is open daily, all year, admission is free.

Orangerie im Schloßpark Muskau (2) - Orangerie The following sights are located within the grounds:

• Old Castle
• New Castle - Neues Schloss - Opening Hours: April–October 10AM Monday - 6PM Admission € 6, reduced € 3 Reopened in 2012 after careful renovation. Houses the exhibition "Pückler! Catch him if you can?". Innovative, multi-faceted and comprehensive exposition on the erstwhile lord of the manor, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, dedicated to his different roles (ruler, adventurer, landscape artist, writer, bon vivant). With several interactive options (like a "love letter machine" that automatically writes a suitable love letter after you tweak some settings—Pückler has written thousands of letters, sometimes using recurring, only slightly varied text modules), lovingly designed animations and displays, short film scenes as well as little audio plays and texts recited by actors. While some of the stations might only unfold their whole allure if you have some knowledge of (German) language and culture, most of the texts are also available in English and the activities are simply fun, no matter what language you speak.
• historical palm and cactus house
• Cavalier house, nowadays used as peat bath
• Moorish-style Orangerie

Two thirds of the park are on the Polish side of the border crossing. Both parts are linked by bridges that may be crossed without border controls (but you have to carry your passport or ID card).

Muslim Travel Tips

• Bad Muskau's"Garden Realm" may be discovered by bike or on foot, by boat or carriage.
• From April to October there are public guided tours of the park (1½ to two hours) each Saturday, Sunday and public holiday at 2PM. Meeting point is at the tourist centre in the New Castle, costs € 4 per person. There is another tour all year, each Saturday at 2PM, starting from the Kulturhotel and mainly targeting spa and hotel guests (same price).
• The tourist centre arranges tours by horse carriage with local carters.
• Neiße-Tours offers zodiac tours on the Neisse river from the old weir to Żarki Wielkie with return transport.
• Bad Muskau owes its status as a state-approved health resort to the Moorbad (peat bath). It offers administrations with healing natural peat pulp and thermal brine or medicinal chalk, private massages, physiotherapy and manual therapy.

Narrow gauge train at Bad Muscau - geo.hlipp.de - 5112 - Muskau narrow-gauge railway

• Waldeisenbahn Muskau - Muskau forest railway - 51.5364,14.723 One-way € 5.80 (reduced € 4.20), return ticket € 8.50 (€ 5.80), family ticket € 22 600-mm gauge Heritage railways|legacy railway linking Bad Muskau with Weißwasser. It runs on weekends from May to September, additionally on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in July and August and around Easter. Moreover and there are some special events throughout the year (see current calendar on the website). Sometimes and the trains are pulled by steam locomotives, more often historical diesel-powered field railway locomotives are deployed.

Halal Restaurants & Food in Bad Muskau

Neapolitan ice cream (i.e. iced parfait blocks of three different flavours, vanilla, Chocolates and strawberry) has been known as Fürst-Pückler-Eis ("Prince Pückler ice-cream") in Germany and has therefore a special relation to Muskau's erstwhile lord. It is offered in many places. The Kulturhotel even offers a degustation of different "Fürst Pückler" ice-cream variations (on request).

• Restaurant "Grüner Fürst" Kulturhotel, Schloßstraße 8 51.54680,14.72101 Mains from € 15.80, three-course menu from € 27.80 (fish) or € 21.70 (vegetarian) Combination of international cuisine with regional and seasonal products (e.g. chanterelles, asparagus, venison).
• Schloss Cafe @.eu Schlossstraße 2 51.54693,14.72246 ☎ +49 35771 639237 Opening Hours: April–October daily 10AM Monday - 7PM
• Hermanns-Theke Clara-Zetkin-Str. 27 51.54337,14.72682 ☎ +49 35771 64230 Pub with billiards and darts

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Ramadan Celebrations in Bad Muskau

Ramadan 2025 in Bad Muskau

Ramadan concludes with the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which may last several days, usually three in most countries.

The next Ramadan shall be from Friday, 28 February 2025 to Saturday, 29 March 2025

The next Eid al-Adha shall be on Friday, 6 June 2025

The next day of Raʾs al-Sana shall be on Thursday, 26 June 2025

The next day for Mawlid al-Nabī shall be on Monday, 16 September 2024

Muslim Friendly Hotels

There is a number of smaller lodgings (Bed & Breakfasts, superior Muslim friendly rooms for rent, holiday flats), see this directory. Single rooms starting at € 14, double from € 28 excluding breakfast; holiday flats from € 30. Every guest has to pay a visitor's tax of € 1.25 per person and night.

Bed and breakfast

• Glockenhof Schulstr. 15, Bad-Muskau OT Köbeln 51.57977,14.72285 ☎ +49 35771 50425 +49 35771 64142
• Pension Parkstübel Kirchstraße 53, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.54605,14.72054 ☎ +49 35771 60271 +49 35771 60271 Single from € 30, double from € 50

Holiday flats

• Holiday flats in Fürst-Pückler-Park € 48 per day + € 30 for final cleaning Four holiday flats (max. two persons each, 49–59 m²) located directly within the Muskau Park, close to the Oder-Neisse Cycle Route. Each with bathroom (shower), kitchen equipped with electric cooker, fridge, sink, water kettle, coffee machine, crockery; TV. Linens and dishtowels are included; face towels can be rented for € 5 per person.

Hotels

• Hotel Am Schloßbrunnen Köbelner Straße 68, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.55634,14.70953 ☎ +49 35771 5230 +49 35771 52350 Double from € 59 incl. breakfast Small three-star hotel (13 rooms) in a quiet environment on the outskirts of the town (700 m off the entrance to the park). All rooms with shower/WC, radio/TV, phone, free WiFi; restaurant.
• Parkstadthotel Schulstr. 45, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.56913,14.71174 ☎ +49 35771 686 0 +49 35771 686 99 Single from € 45, double from € 70 With restaurant.
• Kulturhotel Fürst Pückler Park @rst-pueckler-park.de Schloßstraße 8, 02953 Bad Muskau 51.54680,14.72101 ☎ +49 35771 5330 Double from € 104 Large four-star hotel (100 rooms, including five suites) on the marketplace, directly next to the park entrance; standard rooms are 20m²; special rooms for handicapped people and allergy sufferers; non-smoking hotel, barrier-free; wellness area, private secluded sauna, gym, beauty and wellness packages; restaurant. Holiday and themed arrangements (wellness, romance, culinary etc). Pickup at Weißwasser train station included; collection from other places within 150 kilometers on request and extra charge.

Nearby

Rakotz - Rakotz bridge at the Azalea and Rhododendron park Kromlau

• Azalea and Rhododendron park Kromlau - Azaleen- und Rhododendronpark | 51.53556,14.63611 6 kilometers west of Bad Muskau; 300 m from the forest train station Kromlau Nearly 500 ares-large landscape garden, created by landowner Friedrich Hermann Rötschke—a contemporary of Prince Hermann von Pückler—starting in 1844. He directed the planting of both domestic and exotic plants as well as the arranging of artificial rock formations and landscape sculptures (like caves, grottos, pyramids) made of basalt from Saxon Switzerland and Bohemia. After Count Egloffstein-Arklitten acquired the park in 1893, he hired landscape gardener Georg Eichler to redesign the park with rhododendrons and azalea that still dominate the park's flora. The park includes a 18th-century mansion and the very picturesque Rakotz bridge (colloquially called "devil's bridge").
• Lausitzer Findlingspark Nochten - Lusatian boulder park | north of Nochten, 02943 Boxberg/Oberlausitz 51.436111,14.604167 c. 21 kilometers southwest of Bad Muskau, on the B156 road to Bautzen Landscape garden covering some 50 acres in a recultivated former lignite mine. About 6000 boulders, witnesses of the ice age in Central Europe, that were in the way of the excavators' giant shovels, were collected and arranged here, neighbored by artificial hills and a variety of different plants, including rhododendrons, succulents, perennials and heather.

Go Next

• Łęknica, Polish twin town
• Görlitz, 40 kilometers to the south (or 66 kilometers via Oder-Neisse Cycle Route)
• Cottbus, 40 kilometers to the northwest
• Guben, 55 kilometers to the north (or 61 kilometers via Oder-Neisse Cycle Route)

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