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

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, capital of the Mittelsachsen
Mittelsachsen

Mittelsachsen is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany....
 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.






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

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, capital of the Mittelsachsen
Mittelsachsen

Mittelsachsen is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany....
 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
Freiberg Cathedral

The Freiberg Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary is a Evangelical Church in Germany church in Freiberg, Saxony. It is called a cathedral in English even though it has never been the seat of a bishop....
 containing two famous Gottfried Silbermann
Gottfried Silbermann

Gottfried Silbermann was an influential German constructor of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organ s, and pianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two....
 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
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
.

Literature


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

In 1985 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built the scenic Freiberg Germany Temple
Freiberg Germany Temple

The Freiberg Germany Temple is a Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. The Church announced the temple in October 1982, ground was broken for construction on April 23, 1983, and the temple was dedicated from June 20 to June 30, 1985....
 here because of the large number of members in the region.

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