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Freiberg

Freiberg ranks 1,518th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hispania, Porvoo, and Sibiu. Memorable people born in Freiberg include Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, and Clemens Winkler. Memorable people who died in Freiberg include Ferdinand Reich, Christoph Demantius, and Julius Weisbach. Freiberg has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many chemists, and composers. Freiberg is located in Germany.

Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde, a tributary of the Mulde River. It is a Große Kreisstadt, and the administrative seat of Landkreis Mittelsachsen. Freiberg is connected to Dresden by the S3 line of the Dresden S-Bahn. Read more on Wikipedia