GOLDBERG, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia,' 14 m. by rail S.W. of Liegnitz, on the Katzbach. Pop. 7,842. Goldberg owes its origin and name to a gold mine in the neighbourhood, abandoned since the Hussite wars. The town obtained civic rights in 1211. It suffered from the Tatars in 1241, from the plague in 1334, from the Hussites in 1428, and from various armies during the Thirty Years' War. The principal buildings are an old church dating from the beginning of the 13th century and the classical school (founded in 1524), which was famous in the 17th century and numbered Wallenstein among its pupils. The chief manufactures are woollen cloth, gloves, stockings, cigars and beer.