His wife Maria was distantly related to the lord of the manor of Wechselburg castle and prepared the castle to receive the mathematicians.
So in the summer of 1790, more and more peasants rebelled against the Saxon state, the revolt being centred on Wechselburg.
Wechselburg Priory, formerly Wechselburg Abbey (Kloster Wechselburg) is a Benedictine priory in Wechselburg in Saxony, dissolved in the 16th century and re-founded in 1993.
After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) the lords of Schönburg built a Baroque castle (Schloss Wechselburg) on the foundations of the ruined abbey, which remained in the same family until their dispossession in 1945.