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Marienberg (Saxony)




Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
 
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
 
Marienberg is a town in Germany. It is the district capital of the Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis in the southern part of Saxony. As of 2006, the town had 14,291 inhabitants. The town is situated on a plateau north of the mountain ridge of the Ore Mountains, at an elevation between 460 and 891 meters above sea level. It is approximately 16 kilometers southeast of Chemnitz, to which it is connected via the Flha-Reitzenhain railway.
 
Marienberg and Pobershau are joined in the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Marienberg. The first documented evidence related to Marienberg is the mentioning of the village Wustenschletta as Sletyn in 1323. However, the town was founded on 27 April 1521 by Henry IV, Duke of Saxony after silver had been found in 1519. Marienberg was granted city rights in 1523 and had its own board of mines since 1525. In 1555, there were more than a thousand mines in the Marienberg area. After the exhaustion of the silver, copper and tin were mined in the 17th century. The last mine was closed in 1899. Today, tourism is an important sector of the economy.
 
It can also be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination that enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.

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