9 Sights in Freiberg, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Freiberg, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 9 sights are available in Freiberg, Germany.

Sightseeing Tours in Freiberg

1. Freibergsdorfer Hammerwerk

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As a former hammer mill, the Freibergsdorf hammer is an important witness to the proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains. Of the former numerous hammer mills, only three other plants remained functional in Saxony in addition to the Freibergsdorf hammer, the Dorfchemnitz iron hammer, the Frohnau hammer and the "old hammer" of the Grünthal Saigerhütte.

Wikipedia: Freibergsdorfer Hammerwerk (DE)

2. Bismarckgedenktafel

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From 1868 onwards, Bismarck monuments were erected in many parts of the German Empire in honour of the long-serving Prussian minister-president and first German Reichskanzler, Prince Otto von Bismarck. Today some of these monuments are on the soil of other countries including France, Poland and Russia as well as the former German colonies on other continents.

Wikipedia: Bismarck monument (EN)

3. Schloss Freudenstein

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Freudenstein Castle is located on the Schloßplatz on the edge of the town centre of Freiberg in the German state of Saxony. Its history is closely linked to the House of Wettin. After several conversions the castle is now a stately home with four wings comprising these buildings: the Langes Haus, Neues Haus, Kirchenflügel, Großer Turm und Schmales Haus.

Wikipedia: Freudenstein Castle (EN), Website

4. Freiberg Cathedral

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The Freiberg Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary is a church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony in Freiberg in Saxony. The term Dom, a German synecdoche used for collegiate churches and cathedrals alike, is often uniformly translated as cathedral into English, even though this church here was a collegiate church, not a cathedral.

Wikipedia: Freiberg Cathedral (EN), Website

5. Dreibrüderschacht

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Dreibrüderschacht Birgit Seidel / CC BY 3.0

The three-brothers shaft is a shaft in the Freiberg area between 1791 and 1818. Originally built, among other things, as part of a drainage project, he developed into the main shaft of the pit of God's Duke August. After the mining was hired in 1914, one of the world's first cavern power plants was built in the three-brothers shaft.

Wikipedia: Drei-Brüder-Schacht (DE), Website

6. Freiberg Germany Temple

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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 on June 29 and June 30, 1985.

Wikipedia: Freiberg Germany Temple (EN)

7. Mittelsächsisches Theater

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Mittelsächsisches Theater Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Mittelsächsisches Theater was founded in 1993 as Mittelsächsische Theater und Philharmonie gGmbH from the merger of the Stadttheaters Freiberg and Döbeln. It encompasses drama, musical theatre and philharmonic orchestra.

Wikipedia: Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg und Döbeln (DE), Website

8. Bahnhof Freiberg

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Freiberg (Sachs) station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway and the Nossen–Moldava railway in Freiberg in the German state of Saxony. Until 1995 it was also the start of the disused Freiberg–Halsbrücke railway.

Wikipedia: Freiberg (Sachs) station (EN)

9. TP Freiberg

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TP Freiberg

The Royal Saxon Triangulation (here with the historical proper name) is a land survey carried out between 1862 and 1890 on the territory of the Kingdom of Saxony with the simultaneous creation of a trigonometric network.

Wikipedia: Königlich-Sächsische Triangulirung (DE)

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