Goldberg, Germany

Goldberg
Goldberg
	Church
	Coat of arms
	Location of Goldberg within Ludwigslust-Parchim district
	Goldberg Goldberg
	Coordinates: 53°34′N 12°04′E
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Municipal assoc.	Goldberg-Mildenitz
Subdivisions	8 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Peer Grützmacher
Area
• Total	64.85 km2 (25.04 sq mi)
Elevation	48 m (157 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	3,434
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	19399
Dialling codes	038736
Vehicle registration	PCH
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195532/http://www.amt-mildenitz.de/

Goldberg is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 24 km northeast of Parchim, and 46 km east of Schwerin.

Town hall

Goldberg

History

Goldberg owes its origin and name to a gold mine in the neighbourhood, which, however, has been wholly abandoned since the time of the Hussite wars. The town obtained civic rights in 1211. It suffered heavily from the Tatars in 1241, from the plague in 1334, from the Hussites in 1428, and from the Saxon, Imperial and Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War. On the 27th of May 1813 a battle took place near it between the French and the Russians; and on the 23rd and the 27th of August of the same year fights between the allies and the French.[2]

People born in the town

Peter Larisch (born 1950), handball player

Connected to Goldberg

Gerd Wessig in 1980

Gerd Wessig (born 1959 in Lübz), Olympian winner and world record holder (2,36 m) in the jump, grew up in Goldberg and went to school there

References

"Statistisches Amt M-V – Bevölkerungsstand der Kreise, Ämter und Gemeinden 2019". Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). July 2020.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Goldberg". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Gallery

School building

Jungfernstraße

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[1] "Statistisches Amt M-V – Bevölkerungsstand der Kreise, Ämter und Gemeinden 2019". Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). July 2020.

[2] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Goldberg". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.