page_title: Delitzsch
section_title: Sights
hierarchical_section_title: Delitzsch / Sights
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Breiter Turm, Delitzsch
context_page_description: Delitzsch is a town in the Free State of Saxony in Germany. With 24,850 inhabitants at the end of 2015, it is the largest town in the district of Nordsachsen.
  Archaeological evidence outside the town limits points to a settlement dating from the Neolithic Age. The first documented mention of Delitzsch dates from 1166 and it later became the elector's residence in the 17th and 18th centuries. The old town is well preserved, with several plazas, citizens' and patrician houses, towers, a baroque castle and the town's fortifications.
  Delitzsch and its surrounding area contain water areas, hiking and cycling networks and nature reserves.
context_section_description: Baroque castle with Lustgarten (pleasure gardens), formerly temporary residence and administrative centre, later dower of the Dukes of Saxony-Merseburg, built on the foundations of a medieval moated castle
  kennel gardens, terraced green space created between the city wall and moat (re-opened to visitors in 2010)
  fortifications dating back to the 14th and 15th century with two towers, defensive wall, and water-filled moat
  rose garden
  city church of St. Peter & Paul, brick church of the 15th century with significant high altar
  memorial to Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch
  executioner's house (resident executioner first documented in 1619)
  Stadtschreiberhaus, former home and workplace of the town clerk, now a gallery
  city park with water basin
  zoological gardens
caption: Breiter Turm in the Delitzscher old town
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