Freiberg

Also known as Freiberg/Sachsen

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 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

German location.type: 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
German location.divisions: 8
German location.website: www.freiberg.de
German location.mayor: Sven Krüger
German location.leader_term: 2022–29

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections

Contents

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

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.

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