Ehrenfriedersdorf

IntroductionEhrenfriedersdorf is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated 8 km northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 21 km south of Chemnitz.TheatreAt the start of the 1990s the folk theatre, the Mundarttheater am Greifenstein was founded in Ehrenfriedersdorf. This theatre group took over the tradition of the Mettenspiel, a play as part of the Mettenschicht, which had hitherto been put on by members of the mining fraternity in the buildings of the former tin ord mine of Sauberg.Sons and daughters of the town Johann August Scheibner, politician, Member of Landtag Julius Theodor Zenker, orientalist, translator and private scholar Georg Fritz Weiß, opera singer, translator and actor Max Wenzel, dialect poet of the Erzgebirge Hans Weber, motorcycle racer Günter Deckert , nordic combiner