Meißen

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For porcelain from Meißen, see Meißen porcelain.

Landkreis Meißen
Image:Meissen.oldtown.316px.jpg
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Dresden
District	Meißen Rural District
Town subdivisions	12 Stadtteile/Stadtbezirke
Mayor	Olaf Raschke
Basic statistics
Area	30.90 km² (11.9 sq mi)
Elevation	106 m  (348 ft)
Population	28,544  (30/09/2005)
- Density	924 /km² (2,393 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	MEI
Postal codes	01654 – 01662
Area code	03521
Website	www.stadt-meissen.de Coordinates: 51°9′49″N 13°28′39″E / 51.16361, 13.4775

Meißen (Sorbian: Mišno) is a town of about 30,000 near Dresden on both banks of the Elbe in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meißen is the home of Meißen porcelain. Meißen is the capital city of Meißen Rural District

During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenburg concentration camp was in Meißen.^[1]

Contents 1 Porcelain 2 Notable residents 3 See also 4 Other websites 5 References

[change] Porcelain

Meißen is famous for the manufacture of porcelain. This is because there are big local deposits of china clay (kaolin) and potter's clay (potter's earth). Meißen porcelain was the first high quality porcelain to be produced outside of China.

The first European porcelain was made in Meißen in 1710, when the Royal Porcelain Factory was opened in the Albrechtsburg. In 1861, it was moved to the Triebisch valley of Meißen, where the Meißen porcelain factory can still be found today.

[change] Notable residents

• St. Benno (1010-1106), Bishop of Meißen
• Heinrich Frauenlob (died 1318), poet
• Johann Klaj (1616-1656), poet
• Johann Elias Schlegel (1719-1749), critic and poet
• Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), poet and clergyman
• Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), physician
• Karl G. Maeser (1828-1901), Mormon academic
• Ralf Schumann (born 1962), Olympic shooter

[change] See also

• Missingsch
• List of Margraves of Meißen
• Rulers of Saxony
• Saxon Switzerland

[change] Other websites

• Municipal website (German)
• Giga-Catholic
• Meissen Porcelain
• History of Meissen Porcelain Works
• Further information on Tourism
• Webcam Meissen (German)

[change] References