Annaberg

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This page is about the district of Annaberg in Saxony, Germany. There are also various other places named Annaberg, including Annaberg-Lungötz in Salzburg, Austria and Annaberg in Lower Austria, Austria.

Annaberg
Map of Free State of Saxony highlighting the district Annaberg
State	Free State of Saxony
County seat	Annaberg-Buchholz
Adm. region	Chemnitz
Area	438 km²
Population	86,800 (2001)
pop. density	198 inh./km²
Car identification	ANA
Web page	erzgebirge-total.de/ana

Annaberg is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the Czech Republic and the districts of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Stollberg and Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

[edit] History

In the Middle Ages the Ore Mountains were virtually unsettled and covered by dense forests. The towns of Annaberg and Buchholz (merged in 1945 to form Annaberg-Buchholz) were founded by the turn of the 16th century due to the discovery of silver and tin deposits. Now men from the Saxon lowlands moved into the mountains and founded lots of small towns and villages.

The district of Annaberg was established in 1874.

[edit] Geography

The district is located in the western Ore Mountains on the Czech border. It extends from the highest mountains on the border to more gentle hilly country in the north. The town of Oberwiesenthal is the highest located city of Germany. It is situated on the foot of the Fichtelberg (1214 m), the second highest peak of the Ore Mountains.

[edit] Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

Top left: the arms of the counts of Schönburg-Waldenburg
Middle left: the arms of the counts of Werben
Bottom left: the arms of the counts of Wolkenstein; this family as well as the two above-mentioned lines all had possessions in this part of the Ore Mountains during the late Middle Ages
Right: the lion was the heraldic animal of the margravate of Meissen, the predecessor state of Saxony; in these arms the lion holds the mining tools in its fore-paw, symbolising the mining tradition of the Ore Mountains

[edit] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Annaberg-Buchholz Ehrenfriedersdorf Elterlein Geyer Jöhstadt Oberwiesenthal Scheibenberg Schlettau Thum	Bärenstein Crottendorf Gelenau Königswalde Mildenau Sehmatal Tannenberg Wiesa

[edit] External links

Official website (German, requires Java for navigation)
Inofficial website (German)

	Urban and rural districts in the Federal State of Saxony in Germany
Urban districts	Chemnitz \| Dresden \| Görlitz \| Hoyerswerda \| Leipzig \| Plauen \| Zwickau
Rural districts	Annaberg \| Aue-Schwarzenberg \| Bautzen \| Chemnitzer Land \| Delitzsch \| Döbeln \| Freiberg \| Kamenz \| Leipziger Land Löbau-Zittau \| Meißen \| Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis \| Mittweida \| Muldentalkreis \| Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Riesa-Großenhain \| Sächsische Schweiz \| Stollberg \| Torgau-Oschatz \| Vogtlandkreis \| Weißeritzkreis \| Zwickauer Land