What is Meissen?
{{redlinks|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox German location |name = Meissen |German_name = ''Meißen'' |type = Stadt |image_photo = Meissen - Albrechtsburg und Dom - 2017.jpg |image_caption = Albrechtsburg and Cathedral |image_coa = DEU Meißen COA.png |coordinates = {{coord|51|10|N|13|29|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Meißen in MEI.svg |state = Sachsen |district = Meißen |elevation = 106 |area = 30.90 |population = 28544 |Stand = 2005-09-30 |postal_code = 01654–01662 |area_code = 03521 |licence = MEI |Gemeindeschlüssel = 14627140 |divisions = 12 Stadtteile/[[Stadtbezirk]]e |website = {{url|http://www.stadt-meissen.de/}} |mayor = Olaf Raschke }} '''Meißen''' ({{lang-wen|Mišno}}, {{lang-la|Misnia, Misena}}) is a [[town]] of about 30,000 near [[Dresden]] on both banks of the [[Elbe]] in the [[Free State of Saxony]], in eastern [[Germany]]. Meißen is the home of [[Meißen porcelain]]. Meißen is the [[capital city]] of [[Meißen Rural District]] During [[World War II]], a subcamp of [[Flossenburg concentration camp]] was in Meißen.<ref>Christine O'Keefe.''Concentration Camps.''www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html</ref> == Porcelain == [[File:Misnia2.jpg|thumb|Porcelain bells in Meißen|left]] Meißen is famous for the manufacture of [[porcelain]]. This is because there are big local deposits of china clay ([[kaolin]]) and potter's clay (potter's earth). [[Meißen porcelain]] was the first high quality porcelain to be produced outside of [[China]]. The first European [[porcelain]] was made in Meißen in 1710, when the Royal Porcelain Factory was opened in the Albrechtsburg. In 1861, it was moved to the [[Triebisch]] valley of Meißen, where the Meißen porcelain factory can still be found today. == Notable residents == * St. [[Benno]] (1010-1106), [[Bishop of Meißen]] * [[Heinrich Frauenlob]] (died 1318), poet *