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4 unusual facts about Freiberg


Antonio Scandello

It was conducted at the burial of the Elector in the Freiberg minster in 1562.

Nathaniel P. Hill

Accordingly, he spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea, Wales and Freiberg, Saxony studying metallurgy, and returned to the United States with a perfected method of smelting.

Porcelain money

They were issued for the province Saxony, Meissen, and a number of other cities such as Eisenach, Thuringia; Freiberg, Saxony; Münsterberg, Silesia; Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt; and other cities.

Thomas Weaver

He studied geology and mineralogy from 1790 to 1794 under Abraham Werner at Freiberg.


Eppendorf

Eppendorf, Saxony, a German town in the Freiberg district in Saxony

Freiberg Cathedral

Their tomb, created by the Saxon Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser, had originally been situated in the Lichtenburg at Prettin, but was moved to Freiberg in 1811.

Freiberg subcamp

According to concurring reports from many of the prisoners, they were personally selected at Auschwitz by Dr. Josef Mengele for deportation to Freiberg.

Freiberger Mulde

It runs northwest, crossing the border with Germany after a few km, to Freiberg (hence the name), and further northwest through Nossen, Döbeln and Leisnig.

Halsbrücker Esse

Halsbrücker Esse is a smokestack to the north of Halsbrücke near Freiberg.

Henry IV, Duke of Saxony

In 1505 Heinrich ceded Friesland to Georg, in return for an annuity and the districts of Wolkenstein and Freiberg, where Heinrich made his residence.

Het Bildt

Consequently Albert's successor Heinrich of Saxony, who was of a rather inert disposition, relinquished his claims to the governorship, and in 1505 an agreement was made between Albert's two sons by which Friesland was transferred to Heinrich's brother, George of Saxony, while Heinrich received an annuity and the districts of Freiberg and Wolkenstein.

Johannes Hermann

Thomaskantor from 1531 to 1536, he became the first Protestant Kantor of Freiberg, and a jurist in 1540.

Johannes Hermann, also Johann Herrmann, (1515 – 22 April 1593 in Freiberg) was a German Thomaskantor, hymn writer and jurist.

John Philip Wisser

During 1884, he studied at the Freiberg, Saxony, school of mines, and at the agricultural experiment station at Wiesbaden.

Julius Weisbach

Julius Ludwig Weisbach (born 10 August 1806 in Mittelschmiedeberg (now Mildenau Municipality), Erzgebirge, died 24 February 1871, Freiberg) was a German mathematician and engineer.

Lady with the Ring

In 1920, an ethnologist determined that there were nineteen cities in Germany that claimed that a version of the Lady of the Ring had occurred there, including Hamburg, Lübeck, Dresden, and Freiberg.

Leipzig Trade Fair

At this time, there were fairs at other Saxon towns like Freiberg, Leisnig, Pegau and Regis as well.

Nebra sky disk

According to an initial analysis of trace elements by x-ray fluorescence by E. Pernicka, then at the University of Freiberg, the copper originated at Bischofshofen in Austria, while the gold was thought to be from the Carpathian Mountains.

Philip Deidesheimer

Deidesheimer studied at the mining academy of Freiberg, Germany (see Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg), and was mining in Georgetown, California prior to being hired by W. F. Babcock, a trustee of the Ophir Mine in April 1860.


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