Ehrenfriedersdorf

Ehrenfriedersdorf is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 8 km northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 21 km south of Chemnitz.

Theatre
At 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.

Notable people

 * Georg Fritz Weiß (1822–1893), opera singer, translator and actor
 * Hans Weber (1941–1969), motorcycle racer
 * Günter Deckert (1950–2005), nordic combiner