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.
Mongol raid on Meissen of the Mongol light reconnaissance had pillage through Meissen, Germany and destroyed most of the town before the army of Wenceslaus I of Bohemia came for its relief. Later it is revealed the attack of Meissen and parts of Bohemia is part of Orda Khan plan to trick Wenceslaus I of Bohemia to avoid facing its large army, and to accomplished his mission to meet with the main Mongol force. The destruction of Meissen had forced Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia to write a letter to his father-in-law Henry II, Duke of Brabant describing the raid of the Mongols. "For