St Peter's Church

The first church here was built in the late 12th century in the Romanesque style. It was rebuilt several times, now showing a mostly Baroque style. It was secularised in 1975 and is used as a concert hall and event location.

The castle is as old as the city and was built to protect mining and trade. Some of Saxony's electors resided here most of the time and some of their princes were born here. In the second half of the 16th century, it was transformed into a more comfortable Renaissance-style palace. In 1784, the military took over the building and converted it to an arms depot. Nowadays, it houses the world's largest collection of minerals, gems and meteorites that was donated by a private collector to the University of Freiberg.

Most of the cathedral is late-Gothic dating from the late 15th century, after its predecessor mostly burned down during a big town fire. Fortunately the original, elaborately decorated and sculptured Romanesque portal survived. It is one of the most outstanding pieces of 13th-century art in Germany. Another notable artwork within the cathedral is the unconventionally formed late-Gothic "tulip pulpit". The cathedral's choir contains the burial place of the Saxon prince-electors and their families from the 16th to late 17th century and has lavish Baroque decorations.

In a Gothic gabled cathedral canon residence.