Freiberg
Sign in to saveFreiberg () is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde, a tributary of the Mulde River. It is a Große Kreisstadt (large district town), and the administrative seat of Landkreis Mittelsachsen (district Central Saxony). Freiberg is connected to Dresden by the S3 lin
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Freiberg is a university town and former mining center in Saxony, Germany, with about 41,000 residents, located in the foreland of the Ore Mountains between Chemnitz and Dresden. The city matters as an administrative hub for the Central Saxony district and sits along an important urbanization corridor in eastern Germany.
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Key facts
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- Stadt
- German location.name
- Freiberg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Freiberg COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Freiberg in FG.png
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Mittelsachsen
- German location.elevation
- 400
- German location.area
- 48.05
- German location.postal_code
- 09599, 09596
- German location.area_code
- 03731
- German location.licence
- FG
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14522180
Article
13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Location
- Expansion of the town
- Surrounding area
- Town subdivisions and residential areas
- History
- Regular events
- Education
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Freemen
- Notable people
- Notes and references
- External links
Freiberg () is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde, a tributary of the Mulde River. It is a Große Kreisstadt (large district town), and the administrative seat of Landkreis Mittelsachsen (district Central Saxony). Freiberg is connected to Dresden by the S3 line of the Dresden S-Bahn.
The entire historic center of the Silver City is under monument protection, and together with local monuments of mining history such as the Reiche Zeche ore mine, it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region since 2019 due to its exceptional testimony to the development of mining techniques across many centuries.