Freiberg is located in the eastern part of Germany about 240 km south of the capital Berlin, close to the border of the Czech Republic in the federal state of Saxonia. With about 46.000 inhabitants and roughly 5000 students it is rather small, but nevertheless famous as a traditional silver mining district. Today Freiberg is a center of silicon industry (wafer production) and famous as an important geocenter in Europe.

 

Travel by car

Freiberg is conveniently located with regard to transport facilities in the direction of Berlin, Prag, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main:

• A 13 Berlin–Dresden–Freiberg
• A 14 Leipzig–Freiberg
• A 4 Frankfurt a. M.–Erfurt–Chemnitz–Freiberg
• A 93 (A 72) Munich–Regensburg–Hof–Chemnitz–Freiberg

For detailled routeplanning please use the link http://maps.google.de/

 

Travel by airplane

The closest airport to Freiberg is Dresden Airport. Via Lufthansa - the national German airline - Dresden is connected to all big international German airports (Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin). An Airport City Liner shuttles between Dresden Airport and the Dresden Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station) from where the train takes another 45 minutes to Freiberg.

Arriving at Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin airport and taking the train to Freiberg is another option. While Frankfurt and Munich have only one airport, Berlin has two (Tegel, Schönefeld).

Thus, coming from the airport in Dresden you have to take a train (S2) to Dresden Hauptbahnhof (central railway station).

In case of transportation problems and questions from an airport to Freiberg please do not hesitate to contact us (email).

 

Further Information you will find on the several airport-websites

Leipzig-Halle Airport, 100 km,	Phone: 0049–341–2241155
http://www.leipzig-halle-airport.de/en/home/index.html
Dresden Airport, 65 km,	Phone: 0049–351–8813360
http://www.flughafen-dresden.de/eng/home/index.html
Berlin International Airports, 240 km,	Phone: 0049–180–5000–186
http://www.berlin-airport.de/PubEnglish/index.html
Munich Airport, 450 km,
http://www.munich-airport.de/EN/index.html
Frankfurt a. M Airport, 440 km,	Phone: 0049–69 69 00
http://www1.frankfurt-airport.com/cms/default/rubrik/3/3405.frankfurt_airport_en.htm
Altenburg (low price flights)
http://www.skyscanner.net/airports/aoc/altenburg-airport.html

Travel by train

Freiberg can be reached easily by train from any direction.

Further information under:

Deutsche Bahn AG,

Phone: 0049-11861

Web page: http://www.bahn.de

 

Getting around in Freiberg:

Timetable Public service bus system in Freiberg (Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen)