Marienberg

Marienberg is a town in Germany. It was the district capital of the Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis in the southern piece of Saxony, and since August 2008 it has been a piece of the new district of Erzgebirgskreis. Starting at 2007, the town had 14,181 occupants. The town is arranged on a level north of the Ore Mountain edge, at a height somewhere in the range of 460 and 891 meters above ocean level. It is around 31 kilometers south of Chemnitz, to which it is associated by means of the Floha Valley Railway. The verifiable town focus pursues a rectangular arrangement, copying Italian renaissance.

The primary archived proof identifying with Marienberg is a notice of the town of Wustenschletta as Sletyn in 1323. In any case, by 1481 it was being alluded as wuste Schlette "deserted Schlette". The proprietor of the eponymous glassworks in 1486 was Barthol Preubler. On 17 July 1519, silver was first found as the passageway to the Huttengrund by Clemens Schiffel and, on 11 May 1520, the primary mineral mine Fundgrube, St. Fabian Sebastian, was rented to Schiffel.