Meissen

Meissen is the county seat of the district of the same name in the Free State of Saxony, has nearly 28,000 inhabitants and has the repute of huge district town. The town of Meissen is internationally famous for the manufacturing of Meissen porcelain, the first European porcelain to be produced when you consider that 1708. The name of the town with double-s is a registered trademark of the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen. Below the castle of Misnia, based across the 12 months 929 by using King Henry I,

the fort builder, Meissen developed from the Slavic village of Meisa at the identical named Bach to the marketplace settlement and eventually the stop of the 12th century to a city whose metropolis rights for the 12 months Documented in 1332. Because of the resident bishops Diocese of Meissen, based in 968, the town was of outstanding importance for the cultural development of Saxony. In Meissen existed because 1205, the Augustinian Monastery St. Afra, a Benedictine monastery, the monastery Holy Cross, likely existed because the quit of the twelfth century.