The building once was a steam-powered cutting mill and a popular excursion destination known as “Zur Zeitzer Schweiz”. In the 1930s the house featured guest rooms, an outdoor seating area with more than 1,000 seats and its own bakery. In the early 1950s the summer retreat “Zeitzer Schweiz” became the FDGB holiday home “Schneidemühle,” and at the end of the same decade, it was renamed to “FDGB-Erholungsheim Otto Diehr” in memory of the Zeitz anti-fascist Otto Diehr. From the mid-1960s the site became known as the “Genesungsheim Otto Diehr”. After the end of the GDR the holiday home closed down.
