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Goshen (Village and county-seat)

a village and county-seat of Orange co., N. Y., on the Erie, and the Lehigh and New England railroads:

GOSLAR 59 miles N. W. of New York. It carries on a large trade in cheese and butter, which are widely celebrated for their excellence. It contains a court house, waterworks, churches, 2 National banks, and several weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 5,149; (1920) 5,016.

GOSHAWK GOSLAR (gos'lär), an ancient town of Hanover, on the N. slope of the Harz Mountains, 27 miles S. E. of Hildesheim.

It was at one time a free imperial city, and the residence of the emperors; has several noteworthy old buildings, as the tower called "Zwinger," with walls 23 called "Zwinger," walls 23 feet thick, the late Romanesque Church Neuwerk, of the 12th century, and the Frankenberger Church (1108, restored 1880), both with ancient frescoes; the emperor's house, built in 1050 by Henry III., the dwelling-house of the emperors till the middle of the 13th century, the meeting place of more than 20 imperial diets, restored in 1867-1880; the town house, built in 1136-1184; and the Kaiserworth an old building containing statues of eight emperors. To the S. of the town is the Rammelsberg, a mountain formerly very rich in silver, gold, copper, lead, sulphur, and green vitriol. The mines have been worked since 968. Goslar was founded by Henry I. in 920. About 1350 it joined the Hanseatic League. Its ancient pros- GOSSE perity began to depart from it in the middle of the 16th century; and it suffered severely in the Thirty Years' War. In 1802 it ceased to be a free imperial town and fell to Prussia, to whom it again returned in 1866, after having in the meantime belonged to Westphalia (from 1807) and Hanover (from 1816). Here were born Henry IV. and Marshal Saxe.

The Wordsworths were here in 1798.

Pop. about 18,000.