World Heritage Stop
Embark on a tour past the most beautiful buildings and sights of Freiberg's old town - since 2019 part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krusnohori". On the way, they will learn all sorts of things from 850 years of the city's history: facts, anecdotes and stories about customs and tradition. Of course, there are also audio samples - of the Silbermann organ, the Steigerlied (German miners´ song) and Anacker's miner's greeting.
Highlights of the route
- Schloßplatz
- Untermarkt with St. Mary´s Cathedral and City and Mining Museum
- Buttermarkt with St. Nicholas Church und theatre
- Schüppchenberg / frist silver discovery
- (planned) Silber exhibition mine „Reiche Zeche“
- City wall with Donats tower and Kornhaus (granary)
- Freudenstein castle with the world's largest mineral collection terra mineralia
- Upper Market (Obermarkt) with the fountain monument to the town's founder "Otto the Rich" and the town hall with Meissen porcelain carillon
