Ironworkers' Guilds and the SAXONIA Miners Music Corps. This includes a traditional sermon on the mount in St. Peter's Church and waiting by the miners on the second Saturday in Advent. Firmly established is the potter's gathering on a weekend in the second half of April on the Upper Market (Obermarkt). Every year on the Drei Brüder Schacht mineshaft in the quarter of Zug there is a model steam engine gathering. Other annual events include the Freiberg Art Award and the election of the Mining Town Queen (Bergstadt-Königin). Education The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology or Freiberg Mining Academy, University of Technology) was established in 1765 by Prince Franz Xaver, regent of Saxony, based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel and Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, and is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world. The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology or Freiberg Mining Academy, University of Technology) was established in 1765 by Prince Franz Xaver, regent of Saxony, based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel and Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, and is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world. Twin towns – sister cities Freiberg is twinned with: Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany (1995) Darmstadt, Germany (1990) Delft, Netherlands (1986) Gentilly, France (1960) Ness Ziona, Israel (1996) Příbram, Czech Republic (1999) Wałbrzych, Poland (1999) Freemen 2000 Günter Blobel, biochemist, Nobel Prize 1999 2014 Michael Federmann, investor Notable people Günter Bartusch (1943–1971), motorcycle racer August Bebel (1840–1913), politician Fritz Bleyl (1880–1966), architect, painter of Expressionism Günter Blobel (born 1936), biologist, Nobel laureate, sponsor of the reconstruction of neo-historic buildings in Saxony Kwasi Boakye (1827–1904), from Ashanti, Dutch mining engineer, student in Freiberg (also: Boachi) Rolf Emmrich (1910–1974), internist and university teachers Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250–c. 1311), theologian, philosopher and physicist who gave an accurate explanation for the rainbow Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (1791–1873), mineralogist Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist Hans Carl von Carlowitz (1645–1714), Saxon Oberberg Chief Christoph Demantius (1567–1643), composer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), natural scientist, writer and statesman Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), naturalist and explorer Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917), surveyor, mathematician, the Helmert transformation is named after him, it is the chi-squared distribution attributed Herbert Jobst (1915–1990), writer Edward Johnson (1840–1903), local historian and editor of the Vogtländische Gazette Helmut Kirchberg (1906–1983), mining scientist Theodor Körner (author) (1791–1813), poet, freedom fighter Wilhelm