Freiberg, Saxony

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
Name = Freiberg
image_photo = Freiberg Obermarkt Rathaus.jpg
Wappen = Stadtwappen Freiberg (Sachsen).pnglat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 54 |lat_sec = 43
lon_deg = 13 |lon_min = 20 |lon_sec = 34
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Sachsen
Regierungsbezirk = Chemnitz
Landkreis = Mittelsachsen
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = Freiberg
Höhe = 400
Fläche = 48.05
Einwohner = 42524
Stand = 2007-07-31
PLZ = 09599
PLZ-alt = 9200
Vorwahl = 03731
Kfz = FG
Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 1 77 150
Gliederung = 12
Adresse = Obermarkt 24
09599 Freiberg
Adresse-Verband = Obermarkt 24
Website = [http://www.freiberg.de/ www.freiberg.de]
Bürgermeister = Bernd-Erwin Schramm
Partei = independent

Freiberg (i.e. "free mountain") is a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the Mittelsachsen district.

The city was founded in 1186, and has been a center of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries. A symbol of this history is the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (famously known as the Mining Academy), established in 1765 and the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world. Freiberg also has a notable cathedral containing two famous Gottfried Silbermann organs. Furthermore there are two other organs made by Gottfried Silbermann - one at the St. Peter's Church (Petrikirche) and the other one at the St. James' Church (Jacobikirche). The medieval part of Freiberg stands under heritage protection.

The river, Freiberger Mulde, flows through the township of Freiberg, not the city itself.

In 1944 the Flossenburg concentration camp oversaw a subcamp built outside the city of Freiberg. It housed over 500 female survivors of other camps, including Auschwitz Birkenau. Altogether 50 or so SS women worked in this camp until its evacuation in April 1945. The female survivors later reached the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Literature

Cziborra, Pascal. KZ Freiberg. Geheime Schwangerschaft. Lorbeer Verlag. Bielefeld. 2008ISBN 9783938969052

In 1985 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built the scenic Freiberg Germany Temple here because of the large number of members in the region.

External links

* [http://www.freiberg.de Official website]