and was a forerunner of the present town of Freiberg, which itself was founded in the 1160s. Christiansdorf was located on the so-called Schüppchenberg...
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Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains...
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of silver ore in 1168 in Christiansdorf in the territory of the present-day borough of Freiberg, which is part of the Freiberg Mining Field, mining was...
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Otto II, Margrave of Meissen (category People from Freiberg)
emperor, where silver was discovered near Christiansdorf in 1168. The new mining town (Bergstadt) of Freiberg and its revenues soon became one of the margrave's...
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over centuries, the first in 1168. From that discovery at Christiansdorf (part of the Freiberg Mining Field), mining was carried out uninterruptedly in...
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Freudenstein Castle (category Freiberg)
"Great Tower" and "Narrow House"). After the discovery of silver in Christiansdorf, Margrave Otto II of Meissen had a castle built in 1168 to protect the...
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