Freiberg
Freiberg is a town in Saxony, Germany. It has one of the best preserved historic town centres in the state, and is known for its cathedral and centuries-old mining tradition.
- Type: Town with 41,500 residents
- Description: town, district capital of Mittelsachsen District, Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Freiberg (Sachsen)”, “Freiberg in Sachsen”, “Freiberg/Sachsen”, “Freiberk”, “Freiburg”, and “Фрейберг”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Freiberg Cathedral and Freiberg Germany Temple.
Freiberg Germany Temple
Church
Photo: Peter Wöllauer, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilbersdorf and Halsbrücke.
Hilbersdorf
Village
Halsbrücke
Village
Freiberg
- Categories: Greater district town, mining community, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Mittelsachsen, Saxon Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9169° or 50° 55′ 1″ north
Longitude
13.3429° or 13° 20′ 34″ east
Population
41,500
Elevation
412 metres (1,352 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE FIG
Open location code
9F2MW88V+Q5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Freiberg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Freiberg”
- Arabic: “فرايبرغ”
- Aragonese: “Freiberg”
- Arpitan: “Freiberg”
- Asturian: “Freiberg”
- Azerbaijani: “Frayberq”
- Bashkir: “Фрайберг”
- Basque: “Freiberg”
- Bavarian: “Freiberg”
- Belarusian: “Фрайберг”
- Breton: “Freiberg”
- Bulgarian: “Фрайберг”
- Catalan: “Freiberg”
- Cebuano: “Freiberg (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Freiberg”
- Chechen: “Фрайберг”
- Chinese: “弗莱贝格”
- Chinese: “弗萊貝格”
- Chinese: “弗赖贝格”
- Corsican: “Freiberg”
- Croatian: “Freiberg”
- Czech: “Freiberg”
- Danish: “Freiberg”
- Dutch: “Freiberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فرايبرج”
- Esperanto: “Freiberg”
- Estonian: “Freiberg”
- Finnish: “Freiberg”
- French: “Freiberg”
- Friulian: “Freiberg”
- Galician: “Freiberg”
- German: “Freiberg”
- Greek: “Φράιμπεργκ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Freiberg”
- Hebrew: “פרייברג”
- Hindi: “फ़्राइबर्ग”
- Hungarian: “Freiberg”
- Icelandic: “Freiberg”
- Ido: “Freiberg”
- Indonesian: “Freiberg”
- Interlingua: “Freiberg”
- Interlingue: “Freiberg”
- Irish: “Freiberg”
- Italian: “Freiberg”
- Japanese: “フライベルク”
- Jèrriais: “Freiberg”
- Kazakh: “Фрайберг”
- Kirghiz: “Фрайберг”
- Kongo: “Freiberg”
- Korean: “프라이베르크”
- Kurdish: “Freiberg”
- Ladin: “Freiberg”
- Latin: “Friberga”
- Latvian: “Freiberga”
- Ligurian: “Freiberg”
- Limburgan: “Freiberg”
- Low German: “Freiberg”
- Luxembourgish: “Freiberg”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Freiberg”
- Macedonian: “Фрајберг”
- Malagasy: “Freiberg”
- Malay: “Freiberg”
- Minangkabau: “Freiberg”
- Neapolitan: “Freiberg”
- Northern Frisian: “Freiberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Freiberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Freiberg”
- Norwegian: “Freiberg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Freiberg”
- Persian: “فرایبرگ”
- Picard: “Freiberg”
- Piemontese: “Freiberg”
- Polish: “Freiberg”
- Portuguese: “Freiberga”
- Romanian: “Freiberg”
- Romansh: “Freiberg”
- Russian: “Фрайберг”
- Sardinian: “Freiberg”
- Scots: “Freiberg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Freiberg”
- Serbian: “Freiberg”
- Serbian: “Фрајберг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Freiberg”
- Sicilian: “Freiberg”
- Silesian: “Freiberg”
- Slovak: “Freiberg”
- Slovenian: “Freiberg”
- South Azerbaijani: “فرایبرق”
- Spanish: “Freiberg”
- Swahili: “Freiberg”
- Swedish: “Freiberg, Sachsen”
- Swedish: “Freiberg”
- Swiss German: “Freiberg”
- Tatar: “Фрайберг”
- Tumbuka: “Freiberg”
- Turkish: “Freiberg”
- Ukrainian: “Фрайберг”
- Ukrainian: “Фрайберґ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Freiberg”
- Urdu: “فرائی برگ”
- Uzbek: “Freiberg”
- Venetian: “Freiberg”
- Vietnamese: “Freiberg”
- Vlaams: “Freiberg”
- Volapük: “Freiberg”
- Walloon: “Freiberg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Freiberg, Saxony”
- Waray (Philippines): “Freiberg”
- Welsh: “Freiberg”
- Wolof: “Freiberg”
- Yue Chinese: “費賴堡”
- Zulu: “Freiberg”
- “Freiberg”
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