Freiberg

Freiberg is a university and mining city within the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is a so called Grosse Kreisstadt and the executive centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its ancient metropolis centre has been located beneath background conservation and is a designated site for the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site referred to as the Ore Mountain Mining Region. Until 1969, the metropolis was dominated for around 800 years with the aid of the mining and smelting industries. In recent decades it has restructured right into a high era website in the fields of semiconductor manufacture and solar technology, a part of Silicon Saxony.

The city changed into founded in 1186 and has been a centre of the mining enterprise inside the Ore Mountains for centuries. An image of those records is the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, frequently just known as the Mining Academy, established in 1765 and the second one oldest university of mining and metallurgy inside the international. In North Hungary, in Selmecbanya metropolis now Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia a Mining Academy was established at 1735 Freiberg additionally has a fantastic cathedral containing two well known Gottfried Silverman organs.