Untermarkt (Freiberg)
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The Untermarkt in Freiberg is an important place in the mountain town in Saxony . It has the shape of an irregular polygon and lies at an altitude of about 391 m above sea level. NN . The Lower Market has been the transition from the so-called Saxon town to the Burglehen since the city's earliest times .
The dominant building on its southwest side is the St. Mary's Cathedral , a late Gothic Upper Saxon or Erzgebirge hall church , which protrudes into the market with its choir . The approximately 45 m high gable with its blind niches and its roof turret (total height 51 m) optically closes the Untermarkt off to the southwest.
At the corner of Am Dom / Untermarkt , the high-Gothic building of the former canon court or Thümerei - today the city and mining museum - which is an extension of the cathedral gable, offers another visual attraction. This building was built in 1484 after a city fire. Today's appearance with a stepped gable, blind niches in the gable fields and a stair tower was created in 1902 . After the Reformation and the secularization , when a canon and canon court were no longer needed, the building served as a Latin school and later a grammar school. The humanist, doctor, mining scientist, mathematician, geodesist, astrologer Ulrich Rülein von Calw probably worked in him . It has served as a museum since 1903 .
The house Untermarkt 1 was formerly deanery ; today the superintendent is housed here. The poet Theodor Körner had his study in the neighboring house at Untermarkt 2 . The cathedral cantor Christoph Demantius lived in the building Untermarkt 21 , the former inn "Goldene Pforte" (see Goldene Pforte ) .
Most of the other larger and smaller buildings date from the 16th century.
See also: List of historical and important places and streets in Saxony , Obermarkt (Freiberg)
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 40 ″ E
