The village became a market in 1675. The Saxon state stud has been located in Moritzburg since 1828. In 1884 a narrow gauge railway, the Radebeul-Radeburg line, was built connecting Moritzburg to the district capital Radebeul and Radeburg. The German painter Käthe Kollwitz lived in the Rüdenhof in Moritzburg from 1944 until her death on 1945-04-22 at the invitation of Prince Ernst Heinrich von Wettin. In 1995 a small museum was opened in the Rüdenhof.

Famous personalities

Samuel Locke (1710-1793), architect

Albert Casimir of Saxony-Teschen (1738-1822), patron of the arts

Carl Ludwig Alfred Fiedler (1835-1921), physician

Bruno Adam (1846-1918), architect

Curt Trepte (1902-1990), actor, theater director

William Ruhle (1906-1993), an organ builder

Maurice of Saxony (1521-1553), Elector

August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony

Frederick Augustus I (1750-1827), first King of Saxony

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), sculptor and graphic artist

Walter Henn (1912-2006), architect and professor

Hans Georg Annie (1930-2006), printmaker and sculptor

Roland Adolph (1946-1997), a Protestant pastor

Jan Vogler (born 1964), cellist and artistic director of the Moritzburg Festival

Dulig Martin (b. 1974), Chairman of the SPD faction in the Saxon State Parliament

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