Frankenberg (; also: Frankenberg/Sa.) is a town in the district of

Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen (, ) is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida as part of the district reform of August 2008. Geog ...

, in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is situated on the river

Zschopau Zschopau (), is a town in the Erzgebirgskreis district of Saxony, Germany. The town grew around the castle, which was built in the mid-12th century to protect the Salt Road, which crossed the Zschopau River here. Mining was also practiced from ...

, northeast of

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

, and some north of the border to the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. It was the site of the Nazi concentration camp

Sachsenburg Sachsenburg is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia, Austria. Geography The municipal area stretches along the valley of the Drava river, where it enters the Lurnfeld plain between the Kreuzeck group of the Hohe Ta ...

Sons and daughters of the city

* Christian Gottlob Höpner (1799–1859), composer and organist * Franz Kuhn (1884-1961), lawyer, sinologist and translator * Eberhard Vogel (born 1943), record footballer of the GDR *

Jochen Sachse Jochen Sachse (born 2 October 1948 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is an East German former track and field athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw. He competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich Munich is t ...

(born 1948), hammer thrower and Olympic medalist * Sonja Morgenstern (born 1955), figure skater * Matthias Weichert (born 1955), operatic baritone * Anett Fiebig (born 1961), swimmer * Anja Möllenbeck (born 1972), discus thrower * Peer Kluge (born 1980), footballer

References

External links

* * Mittelsachsen {{Mittelsachsen-geo-stub