Germany: Meissen (Meißen)

Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about 25 km northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche.

The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of Misni, named for the small river Misna today Meisabach, inhabited by the Slavic Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.

Stamp is Ludwigslust castle, issued on 2015-01-02

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