German Goslar witch city with the witch who seek happiness

Perhaps you are still KTV night yelling "here we have a fish", please allow cold air blowing stiff head I, this irrelevant to connect a stubble, "we here snow". Now, late winter Germany, not winter to warm a bit. If you want to wake up my heart on the German winter pale memory without thinking, I will tell you, that is called a witch City -- the central German Weser and Elbe (Weser) (Elbe), there is a 110 km long, 40 km wide mountains, the Harz mountains (Harz). The highest point of the mountain is 1141 meters above sea level the brocken (Brocken). "Witches to broken hill, the ear of wheat stubble green, yellow." (Goethe's "Faust") master the word once spoken, followers, took the Harz mountains at the foot of the town gosfar (Goslar) called the witch city.

The town gosfar

The town.

No witchcraft of supporters in the US, by UNESCO in the world order, in the dead of winter in a black darkness of dawn, visit the world heritage city. When the lamp is not extinguished, the bus is not normal operation. In order to catch a train every hour, in order to seize every minute and second to gosfar basks in the midday sun, we go to the train station and ran. It is a day in the cold, cold air can directly poured into the intestines, my backpack straps run road is broken, the backpack from shoulder fell to the ground. Come to think of it that it is a trip of the most driven to distraction.

Germany's winter, long and lonely

Say, Goslar is also a up and down for thousands of years ancient city. In the early period of Rome, Harz mountains is the European important mining area, some city at the foot of the mountain mining people including Goslar, in his family to settle down, will be collected in the smelting of ore. In 1267, Goslar joined the Hanseatic League (a business alliance in some northern city in the northern city of Germany.), make all-out efforts to manage the internal affairs, making alliance regulations, scheming quite heavy to look to a large slice of foreign trade from other city. But by many block, Goslar a to be resourceful. The political heart, gradually cold.

The copper silver trade and beer exports for the establishment of city economic subject gosfar, career since unfavorable to efforts to promote production, in 1323 Goss people began mining for building stone, in 1468 they discovered ore. When Goslar and Isaacson, Thuringia and Cologne, Germany has a solid business, since the expected benefits, not fish in the Hanseatic League in 1566, Goslar took the league and go.

It is worth mentioning that, in architecture, Goslar achievements also have high, fourteenth Century Goslar can through the wooden pipeline system to the housing is communicated with tap water all, was the most benefit from this is that people in the restaurant work and trapped in the kitchen housewives, since they get rid of the gazed firewood side of the busy cannot climb toil day draw water from a well down.