Meissen Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: "Meißen", ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about 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 "Große Kreisstadt" is the capital of the Meissen district. Meissen is sometimes known as the "cradle of Saxony". The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of "Misni" inhabited by the Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.
Meissen station majority of the investment of the €1.6 million came from the Federal Government’s economic stimulus program. For cost reasons, Deutsche Bahn concentrated on the rehabilitation of the original tile base of Meissen porcelain and the installation of a new lighting. A renovation of platforms was done in 2012-2014 as part of the upgrade of the S-Bahn line to Meissen, which is due to be completed in 2016. Most of 2013 the station was served by the S-Bahn from Dresden which did not continue to Meißen Triebischtal, though. Rail services towards Leipzig had been suspended in 2013 due to the simultaneous