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Freiberg is a city in Saxony , Germany , capital of the District Freiberg . Population 45.428 (2001). The city was founded in 1186 , and has been a center of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries. A symbol of this history is the Freiberg University Of Mining And Technology , established in 1765 and the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world. Freiberg also has a notable Cathedral containing a famous Gottfried Silbermann organ. In 1944 the Flossenburg Concentration Camp oversaw a subcamp built outside the city 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 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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