Sachsen

Saxony is a state in the east of the Federal Republic of Germany. With more than four million inhabitants, Saxony is the seventh largest federal state in terms of population, and with an area of around 18,450 square kilometers it is the tenth largest federal state, ranking in the middle among the 16 German federal states. The state capital is Dresden, while Leipzig, the most populous city as the center of the cross-state metropolitan region of central Germany, the third major city in the federal state and at the same time the fourth-largest city in eastern Germany, is Chemnitz.

In the south, the Free State has shares in several low mountain ranges such as the Ore Mountains, the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Lausitzer Bergland. In the north, lowlands, such as the Leipzig lowlands and northern Upper Lusatia, dominate, while hills in the middle characterize the landscape as a characteristic landform.

Its constitutional order is based on the constitution of the Free State of Saxony. Saxony has been called a Free State since 1918 when it was proclaimed a republic and the associated end of the Kingdom of Saxony. After the dissolution of the states in the territory of the GDR in 1952, Saxony was re-established as a federal state on October 3, 1990 and, like the state of the Weimar Republic, adopted the designation as a free state in the state constitution.