Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, located on the northern declivity of the Ore Mountains. Its historic town centre is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Ore Mountain Mining Region, due to its exceptional testimony to the development of mining techniques across many centuries. Until 1969, the town was dominated for around 800 years by the mining and smelting industries. In recent decades it has restructured into a high technology site in the fields of semiconductor manufacture and solar technology, part of Silicon Saxony. It is home of the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world, the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology.
Unesco: Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region
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Date: Jan 29
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