Hubertusburg

Hubertusburg, formerly a royal hunting-seat of Saxony, 25 miles E. by S. from Leipzig, built in 1721 by Prince Frederick Augustus, afterwards King Augustus III. of Poland. It was much injured during the Seven Years' War; and there on 15th February 1763 was signed the treaty by which that war was ended. Since 1840 the buildings have served as a prison, a hospital, an asylum for the insane, and a refuge for idiot children.