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Saxony
Mittelsachsen

Frankenberg

Frankenberg is a town in the district of , in , . It is situated on the river , 12 km northeast of , and some 40 km north of the border to the . It was the site of the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenburg.
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  • Type: Town with 14,600 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “14522150”, “Frankenberg, Saxony”, “Frankenberg/Sa.”, “Frankenberg/Sachsen”, and “Stadt Frankenberg/Sa.”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sachsenburg concentration camp and Rathaus Frankenberg/Sa..

Museum
Photo: Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag Meißen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sachsenburg was a Nazi concentration camp in eastern , located in Frankenberg, , near . Along with Lichtenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1937.

Town hall
Photo: JiriMatejicek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

Railway station
Photo: JiriMatejicek, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ortelsdorf and Altenhain.

Neighborhood
Photo: Aagnverglaser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Village
Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a village.

Hamlet
Photo: Aagnverglaser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Frankenberg

Latitude
50.911° or 50° 54′ 40″ north
Longitude
13.0331° or 13° 1′ 59″ east
Population
14,600
Elevation
250 metres (820 feet)
Open location code
9F2MW26M+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240081756
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7602420
Wiki­data ID
Q71104
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Frankenberg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فرانكنبرغ سكسونيا”
  • Arabic: “فرانكنبرغ”
  • Aragonese: “Frankenberg (Saxonia)”
  • Aragonese: “Frankenberg”
  • Bashkir: “Франкенберг”
  • Basque: “Frankenberg”
  • Catalan: “Frankenberg”
  • Cebuano: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Chechen: “Франкенберг”
  • Chinese: “弗兰肯贝格”
  • Chinese: “弗蘭肯貝格”
  • Chinese: “萨克森州弗兰肯贝格”
  • Czech: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Czech: “Frankenberg”
  • Dutch: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Dutch: “Frankenberg”
  • Esperanto: “Frankenberg”
  • Estonian: “Frankenberg”
  • French: “Frankenberg”
  • German: “Frankenberg”
  • German: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • German: “Frankenberg/Sachsen”
  • Hungarian: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Hungarian: “Frankenberg”
  • Irish: “Frankenberg”
  • Italian: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Italian: “Frankenberg”
  • Japanese: “フランケンベルク/ザクセン”
  • Japanese: “フランケンベルク”
  • Kazakh: “Франкенберг”
  • Kirghiz: “Франкенберг”
  • Korean: “프랑켄베르크”
  • Kurdish: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Ladin: “Frankenberg/Sachsen”
  • Ladin: “Frankenberg”
  • Latvian: “Frankenberga”
  • Macedonian: “Франкенберг”
  • Malay: “Frankenberg, Saxony”
  • Malay: “Frankenberg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Frankenberg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Frankenberg i Sachsen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Frankenberg”
  • Persian: “فرانکنبرگ، زاکسن”
  • Persian: “فرانکنبرگ”
  • Polish: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Polish: “Frankenberg”
  • Portuguese: “Frankenberg (Saxônia)”
  • Portuguese: “Frankenberg”
  • Romanian: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Russian: “Франкенберг”
  • Serbian: “Франкенбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Slovak: “Frankenberg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانکنبرق، زاکسن”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرانکنبرق”
  • Spanish: “Frankenberg”
  • Spanish: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Swedish: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Swedish: “Frankenberg”
  • Tatar: “Франкенберг”
  • Tumbuka: “Frankenberg, Saxony”
  • Tumbuka: “Frankenberg”
  • Turkish: “Frankenberg, Saksonya”
  • Turkish: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Turkish: “Frankenberg”
  • Ukrainian: “Франкенберг”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Uzbek: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Vietnamese: “Frankenberg, Mittelsachsen”
  • Vietnamese: “Frankenberg”
  • Volapük: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Frankenberg, Saxony”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Frankenberg”
  • Welsh: “Frankenberg/Sa.”
  • Welsh: “Frankenberg”

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