Goldberg

Goldberg, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Katzbach, 13 miles by rail WSW. of Liegnitz. It owes both origin and name to its former rich gold-mines; suffered much from Mongols and Hussites, the Thirty Years' War, the campaign of 1813, and finally from great fires (1863-74); and now has manufactures of cloth, flannel, &c. Pop. 6436.