page_title: Schwarzenberg, Saxony
section_title: Culture and sightseeing
hierarchical_section_title: Schwarzenberg, Saxony / Culture and sightseeing
caption_attribution_description: Blick auf die Schwarzenberger Stadtteile Heide und Sonnenleithe
context_page_description: Schwarzenberg is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, near the German–Czech border. The town lies roughly 15 km southeast of Aue, and 35 km southwest of Chemnitz.
  Founded in the 12th century to protect a trade road, the small mountain town became the centre of a territory known as Herrschaft Schwarzenberg and later Amt Schwarzenberg. During the division of Germany, Schwarzenberg was part of East Germany and became the greatest producer of washing machines in Eastern Europe. Schwarzenberg became more widely known in 1987, when Stefan Heym coined the term Free Republic of Schwarzenberg for a small gap between the Soviet and American occupation zones in May/June 1945.
context_section_description: Often called the "Pearl of the Erzgebirge", Schwarzenberg's main attraction is its historic centre.
  Palace with museum
  St.-Georgen-Kirche (built between 1690 and 1699)
  The Grenzlandfeierstätte (“Borderland Celebration Place”), dedicated in 1938, affords roughly 15,000 visitors seats for great cultural events as a Waldbühne (“forest stage”).
  Weiße Frau (“White Woman”) on Jägerhäuser Straße
  "Brunnenanlage und Meißner Glockenspiel" ("Faountain and the Meissen porcelain glockenspiel"), with 37 bells, is situated in the heritage-protected old town
caption: View from the road to Jägerhaus: In the foreground the residential area of Heide, behind it in the middle of the picture the residential area of Sonnenleithe, on the right edge of the picture Beierfeld, on the left edge of the picture Bernsbach, on the horizon to the right, the Spiegelwald
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