Goldau

Goldau, a small Swiss town behind the Rigi and on the St Gotthard railway, was utterly destroyed by a landslip, 2d September 1806; while the neighbouring villages of Busingen, Röthen, and Lowerz were overwhelmed, and a part of the Lake of Lowerz was filled up, by the fall of the upper slope of Mount Rossberg. The valley is now a wild rocky waste, overgrown with grass and moss. The village of Neu-Goldau, on the line of the Rigi railway, consists of but a few houses.