Freiberg Cathedral in Saxony is an Evangelical-Lutheran church. It was a collegiate church, not the seat of a bishop. A basilica was built here around 1180, and it became a collegiate church in 1480. A great fire in 1484 destroyed most of the church, but the crucifixion group, the Golden Gate and parts of the choir survived. The Golden Gate is late Romanesque, and the church is a Gothic hall church with three naves.
The Tulip Pulpit was completed in 1505, and the Miner's Pulpit was made in 1638. Nine rulers of Saxony were buried in the choir from 1541. The Silbermann organ, built from 1711 to 1714, has three manuals, 44 stops and 2,574 pipes.
The heaviest of its six bells, the Große Susanne, weighs five tons. An extension was built in 1902 and 1903 to protect the Golden Gate.
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