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Goldberg, Germany

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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Ludwigslust-Parchim

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
27.36 km²

Local time
  
Thursday 8:22 AM

Dialling code
  
038736

State
  
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Elevation
  
48 m (157 ft)

Postal codes
  
19399

Population
  
3,378 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
19399

Municipal assoc.
  
Goldberg-Mildenitz

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Weather
  
4°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 89% Humidity

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.

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Map of 19399 Goldberg, Germany

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.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter Larisch (born 1950), handball player

    • Connected to Goldberg

  • 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
  • Jungfernstraße

    • References

    Goldberg, Germany Wikipedia
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