Freiberg Antiquities Association
The Freiberg Antiquities Association FAV was founded on March 14, 1860 as one of the oldest urban history associations in Central Germany under the leadership of Heinrich Gerlach . Urban preservation , monument preservation and historical research were the focus of the activities of the Freiberg Association until it was dissolved after 1945. By 1942, 71 issues of the communications of the Freiberg Antiquities Association had been published .
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The Freiberg City and Mining Museum emerged from the museum founded in 1861, which made the antiquity collection and library of the association accessible to the public . This collection grew rapidly, so that the association received the old high school building next to Freiberg Cathedral on Untermarkt , which had been renovated by the city , where the museum was reopened in 1903 in the presence of the Saxon king.
The association was re-established in 1990; the first chairman was Ulrich Thiel. Jürgen Bellmann has been running the association since 2001. Since then, the association has developed a lively publication activity:
- Announcements of the Freiberg Antiquities Association
- Monument topography Freiberg (articles, 3 volumes)
- Andreas Möller History Prize booklets
- Proceedings Duke Heinrich the Pious (1473–1541).
The association also shows initiative outside Freiberg and has organized a meeting of all local chronicles in the Freiberg district once a year since 1995 .