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About Frankenberg
Frankenberg in Saxony, not to be confused with Frankenberg an der Eder in Hesse, sits on the Zschopau river in the district of Mittelsachsen, a little over ten kilometres northeast of Chemnitz. The small town of just under 14,000 people is shaped by Saxon industrial history.
The old town centres on the large market square and its town hall. The Webermeisterhaus recalls the weaving trade that made Frankenberg a textile town in the 19th century. The ZeitWerkStadt is a hands-on museum about Saxony's industrial and motoring history. Upstream, Sachsenburg Castle, a late Gothic residence, stands above the Zschopau. On the same site a memorial remembers the early Sachsenburg concentration camp. For time outdoors there are walks in the Zschopau valley and up on the Lützelhöhe.
For several years Frankenberg has had its own Christopher Street Day. Around 100 people turned out for the very first march, which set off from the railway station. The route runs from the station over the Lützelhöhe down to the market square, where the demonstration ends with speeches and stalls from local groups and initiatives. Frankenberg's Pride takes place once a year in summer and appears in the Saxon Pride calendar alongside Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.
The event is run by volunteers. The organisers have had to negotiate conditions with the town, the district office and the police, for example over pup players wearing masks. A Pride march in a small town needs more groundwork than one in a big city, and it shows how seriously people here take the goal of queer visibility in rural Saxony.
For regular support, people head to Chemnitz. The association different people e.V. offers counselling, education work and many groups there, including a youth group for under-20s, a group for over-50s and an evening for trans people. Through mobile counselling and its programme for the surrounding region, it also reaches people in Mittelsachsen. Christopher Street Day Chemnitz e.V. organises the annual Pride in Chemnitz and welcomes new members.
If you visit Frankenberg in summer, a trip to Sachsenburg Castle and the Zschopau valley combines well with the Pride weekend.
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