Ehrenfriedersdorf
Ehrenfriedersdorf | |
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 Coat of arms | |
show Location of Ehrenfriedersdorf within Erzgebirgskreis district | |
  Ehrenfriedersdorf | |
| Coordinates: 50°38′46″N 12°58′11″E / 50.64611°N 12.96972°ECoordinates: 50°38′46″N 12°58′11″E / 50.64611°N 12.96972°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony |
| District | Erzgebirgskreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2015–22) | Silke Franzl[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 15.86 km2 (6.12 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 731 m (2,398 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 550 m (1,800 ft) |
| Population (2020-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 4,638 |
| • Density | 290/km2 (760/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 09427 |
| Dialling codes | 037341 |
| Vehicle registration | ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP |
| Website | www.stadt-ehrenfriedersdorf.de |
Ehrenfriedersdorf (German pronunciation: [eːʁənˈfʁiːdɐsdɔʁf] (
listen)) 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.
Town hall
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[]
Zschopau, Sports people of the year, 1968, Hans Weber left
- 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 (nordic combined) (1950-2005), nordic combiner
References[]
- ^ Bürgermeisterwahlen 2015, Freistaat Sachsen, accessed 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2020". Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). June 2021.
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