Moritzburg Castle or Moritzburg Palace is a Baroque palace in Moritzburg, in the German state of Saxony,
about 8 miles northwest of the Saxon capital, Dresden. The castle has four round towers and lies on a symmetrical artificial island.
The original castle, built from 1542–1546, was a hunting lodge for Moritz of Saxony, then Duke of Saxony.
Elector Augustus the Strong converted the Renaissance building into a Baroque hunting and pleasure palace, in 1723.
Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, who lived in the castle between 1933 and 1945, was the last resident of the House of Wettin.
He was disposessed in 1945 by the postwar Soviet administration.