Perhaps the most captivating in the silver city of Freiberg is its late medieval town centre and the vestiges of the wealth from its heyday.

The sound of the world-famous Silbermann organ in the St. Marien Cathedral, the silver mine, and the renowned world’s largest mineralogical collection entice numerous visitors to this mining capital, so rich in history extending back more than 800 years. Not least because of the students at the University of Mining and Technology, which is one of the oldest metallurgical universities in the world, fresh winds still blow through ancient foundations here.