What is Freiberg, Saxony?
{{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |name = Freiberg |image_photo = Fg080509 10dom.jpg |image_caption = Freiberg |image_coa = DEU Freiberg COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|50|54|43|N|13|20|34|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Freiberg in FG.png |state = Sachsen |district = Mittelsachsen |elevation = 400 |area = 48.05 |population = 42524 |Stand = 2007-07-31 |postal_code = 09599 |area_code = 03731 |licence = FG |Gemeindeschlüssel = 14522180 |divisions = 12 |website = {{url|http://www.freiberg.de/}} |mayor = Sven Krüger |party = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] }} '''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== <references /> == Other websites == {{commons-inline|Freiberg}} * [http://www.freiberg.de Official website] {{multistub|geo|Europe}} [[Category:Mittelsachsen Rural District]]