Goes

Goes is a metropolis on the Zuid-Beveland peninsula, centrally placed inside the Dutch province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has 26,920 population and the municipality 37,654 population. Goes is likewise the capital of the municipality of the identical name. Goes originated within the tenth century on the edge of a creek known as the Korte Gos. The village, constructed on a creek ridge, grew hastily and as early because the 12th century there has been communicate of a market square and a church dedicated to Mary Magdalene. Due to the fast growth, Goes changed into granted town rights in 1405 via the be counted of Zeeland,

Willem VI, and in 1417 formally allowed to bolster himself with city walls and a town moat. The prosperity of the metropolis become based totally on material industry and the extraction of salt from peat. In the 16th century, Goes changed into much less a success. The connection to the ocean silted up and in 1554 a chief town hearth destroyed the northwestern a part of the metropolis. The purpose was a salt shack caught fire in combination with a strong northeast wind.