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Freiberg
Freiberg
Town
	Freiberg
	Coat of arms
	Location of Freiberg within Mittelsachsen district
	Freiberg Freiberg
	Coordinates: 50°54′43″N 13°20′34″E / 50.91194°N 13.34278°E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Mittelsachsen
Subdivisions	12
Government
• Mayor	Sven Krüger (SPD)
Area
• Total	48.05 km2 (18.55 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	40,485
• Density	840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	09599
Dialling codes	03731
Vehicle registration	FG
Website	www.freiberg.de

Freiberg (i.e. free mountain) is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the Freiberg Rural District.

The town was founded in 1186, and has been a centre of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries.

In 1944 the Flossenburg concentration camp built a subcamp outside the town of Freiberg. It housed over 500 female survivors of other camps, including Auschwitz Birkenau. Altogether 50 or so SS women worked in this camp until its evacuation in April 1945. The female survivors later reached the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

References

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