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Ehrenfriedersdorf

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Country
  
District
  
Postal codes
  
09427

Area
  
15.86 km²

Population
  
5,108 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
037341

State
  
Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Dialling codes
  
037341

Local time
  
Wednesday 12:05 AM

Postal code
  
09427

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Weather
  
1°C, Wind SW at 11 km/h, 87% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Greifensteine, Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf, Oswald-Barthel-Denkmal

Introduction

Ehrenfriedersdorf is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated 8 km northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 21 km south of Chemnitz.

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Theatre

At the start of the 1990s the folk theatre, the Mundarttheater am Greifenstein was founded in Ehrenfriedersdorf. This theatre group took over the tradition of the Mettenspiel, a play as part of the Mettenschicht, which had hitherto been put on by members of the mining fraternity in the buildings of the former tin ord mine of Sauberg .

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann August Scheibner (1810-1888), politician, Member of Landtag (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • Julius Theodor Zenker (1811-1884), orientalist, translator and private scholar
  • Georg Fritz Weiß (1822-1893), opera singer, translator and actor
  • Max Wenzel (1879-1946), dialect poet of the Erzgebirge
  • Hans Weber (1941-1969), motorcycle racer
  • Günter Deckert (1950-2005), nordic combiner
  • References

    Ehrenfriedersdorf Wikipedia


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