Goslar (deu)

Goslar

Goslar ranks 2,182nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lake Charles, Louisiana, Shaoxing, and Barcelos, Portugal. Memorable people born in Goslar include Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Maurice de Saxe, and Judith of Swabia. Memorable people who died in Goslar include Hermann Hoth, Adalbert of Hamburg, and Alfred Schwarzmann. Goslar has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels and the death place of many military personnels, and religious figures. Goslar is located in Germany.

Goslar is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and is located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar with over 1.500 timber houses and the Mines of Rammelsberg are UNESCO World Heritage Sites for their millennium-long testimony to the history of ore mining and their political importance for the Holy Roman Empire and Hanseatic League. Each year Goslar awards the Kaiserring to an international artist, called the "Nobel Prize" of the art world. Read more on Wikipedia