GOLDBERG, a town, capital of a cognominal circle, in the Prussian province of Silesia, government of and 14 miles S.W. of Liegnitz, on the Katzbach, an affluent of the Oder. It received its name from a gold mine in the neighbourhood, formerly productive, but now abandoned. Wallenstein was educated at the gymnasium of this town. The chief manufactures are woolen cloth, flannel, stockings, &c. At the hamlet of Wahlstadt, six miles E. of the town, the French were defeated by the Prussians on the 26th August 1813. Pop. (1849) 7119.