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. It was built in 1911 as the villa of a wealthy mining businessman. Since 1997 it has been owned by the Leonhardt brothers (Leonhardt Group).HistoryThe 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. The interior decor, some of which is still in its original state, was carried out by well known Munich artists. The luxury villa with its L-shaped floor plan is surrounded by 6 hectares of parkland. Here there are several well kept lawns and a wolf statue in red sandstone by a well, an artistic symbol of the name of the property.In 1934 the owner died and the estate became a communal property. 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.