Discover the old town of Görlitz

Our recommendations for your visit in Görlitz

 

Görlitz is eas­i­ly acces­si­ble on foot with the his­toric old town, the Niko­laivorstadt, the Grün­derzeit quar­ters and the numer­ous parks.
Muse­ums, church­es, restau­rants, THEATER, town hall, HEILIGES GRAB, Flüster­bo­gen, Niko­laifried­hof, Jakob Böhme's Grave, Alt­stadt­brücke, bak­eries, butch­ers, week­ly mar­ket, CINEMA, uni­ver­si­ty, Flüster­bo­gen und PARKS such as the Rosen­garten, Pfar­rgärtchen, Stadt­park, Ochsen­bastei, Zwinger, the Wil­helm­splatz , Marien­platz and Post­platz are with­in walk­ing dis­tance.
The tram takes you to the LANDESKRONE, to the clin­ic or towards the BERZDORFER SEE.
In the wider area, the ZITTAUER MOUNTAINS are worth see­ing as the small­est sand­stone moun­tains in Ger­many
The Giant Moun­tains with the Hirschberg­er Val­ley, Wro­claw and Bolesław­iec in neigh­bor­ing Poland are def­i­nite­ly worth a vis­it.
Liberec and Prague are not far and VILLA SCHMINKE awaits you in Löbau.
In Niesky you can vis­it the Kon­rad-Wachs­mann-Sied­lung, the K.-WACHSMANNHAUS and a wood­en church from the pre­cast range from Christoph & Unmar­ck AG.

Steinweg in the center of the Nikolaivorstadt
Stein­weg in the cen­ter of the Nikolaivorstadt
Bismarck Tower on the hill Landeskrone
Bis­mar­ck Tow­er on the hill Landeskrone
View form Jauernick-Buschbach to the Landeskrone
View form Jauer­nick-Buschbach to the Landeskrone
Portal of the Nikolai Church
Por­tal of the Niko­lai Church
The townhall seen form Neisse Street
The town­hall seen form Neisse Street
The animal park is lovely situated
The ani­mal park is love­ly situated
ViaThea is s spectacular street theatre
ViaThea is s spec­tac­u­lar street theatre
ViaThea, the street theatre with a lot of atmosphere
ViaThea, the street the­atre with a lot of atmosphere
Son of Görlitz, Jakob Böhme
Son of Görlitz, Jakob Böhme
Skyline with Church of St. Peter and Paul, Townhall, Church of Trinity
Sky­line with Church of St. Peter and Paul, Town­hall, Church of Trinity
Tower of Reichenbach, Fad Tower and Church of Our Lady
Tow­er of Reichen­bach, Fad Tow­er and Church of Our Lady
Church of the Cross ans Jakobus Cathedral
Church of the Cross ans Jakobus Cathedral
The Landeskrone
The Lan­deskro­ne
snow at Langen Street
snow at Lan­gen Street
snow at Langen Street
snow at Lan­gen Street
The animal park has an asian fokus
The ani­mal park has an asian fokus
Typografie of ancient times
Typografie of ancient times
luxury on facades
lux­u­ry on facades
Schlesischer Tippelmarkt with pottery
Schle­sis­ch­er Tip­pel­markt with pottery
Street party at Handwerk
Street par­ty at Handwerk
medieval music during the old town festival
medieval music dur­ing the old town festival
View on St. Peter and Paul
View on St. Peter and Paul

short history of the city of görlitz

1071

first men­tioned as “vil­la gorel­ic”, i.e. Fire or clear­ing site, in the cer­tifi­cate
cre­at­ed by Hein­rich IV at the foot of a Bohemi­an cas­tle com­plex,
Traces of set­tle­ment up to the Bronze Age could be found,
the city belonged to Bohemia, Bran­den­burg, Sax­ony and Prussia

1298

first men­tioned a city coun­cil with may­or and 12 coun­cilors and 4 lay judges

1300

the Görlitz cloth weav­ing mill gains nation­al importance

1303

City law under Magde­burg law

1305

Start of the records in the Görlitz town book

1319

Görlitz belongs to the Duchy of Schwei­d­nitz-Jauer for 10 years

1330

the city acquires the mar­ket and coin shelf, the salt stack­ing law and
duty-free in all coun­tries of the Czech crown

1339

Right to stack for woad and thus rise to the most impor­tant trad­ing city
between Erfurt and Wroclaw

1346

Foun­da­tion of the Upper Lusa­t­ian six-town asso­ci­a­tion with Bautzen, Löbau, Zit­tau, Kamenz u. Lauban

1367

Brew­ing right

1389

approx. 8000 inhabitants

1432

In the Hus­site War, Görlitz was not besieged because of its strong fortifications

1433

Emper­or Sigis­mund award­ed the city coat of arms, which is still used today

1440

the city acquires the region­al crown

1490

con­struc­tion of the large round­about in front of the Bud­isin­er Tor, today known as Kaisertrutz,
the last mod­ern­iza­tion of the city fortifications

1527

cloth-mak­er uprising

1546

Görlitz is a mem­ber of the Schmal­ka­lden­er Bund because the Bohemi­an king in
Schmal­ka­ldic war was appar­ent­ly insuf­fi­cient­ly sup­port­ed, it comes to
Ober­lausitzer Pön­fall and Görlitz los­es the high juris­dic­tion, all land own­er­ship
and the free advice

1556

on April 30, 40 hous­es burn down in Niko­laigasse and the sur­round­ing area

1563

the last Fran­cis­can monk hands the monastery over to the city, with the con­di­tion that it be entered here
To set up high school, 2 years lat­er was taught here

1593

B. Scul­te­tus cre­ates the first map of Upper Lusatia

1599

Jakob Böhme becomes a cit­i­zen of the city

1633

Wallenstein's impe­r­i­al troops storm and pil­lage the city on Octo­ber 30

1691

85 hous­es burn down in the suburbs

1717

start­ing from Peter­strasse, the city burns down to the core

1726

164 hous­es burn down

1759

Hous­es burn around Brüder­straße, Bäck­er­gasse and Krischelstraße

1779

Foun­da­tion of the Upper Lusa­t­ian Soci­ety of Sciences

1787

 first pub­lic street lamp oper­at­ed with oil

1807

on July 17, Napoleon is in the city for the first time

1812

on May 29, Napoleon is in the city for the sec­ond time and is on Decem­ber 13. unrec­og­nized at the
Tran­sit back to Paris

1813

on April 20, Emper­or Alexan­der I of Rus­sia stayed in Görlitz

1813

Friedrich Wil­helm III arrives on April 23. from Prus­sia to Görlitz

1832

on June 22, the first elec­tions to the city coun­cil take place

1833

Demi­ani becomes first may­or accord­ing to the Pruss­ian city ordinance

1848

Foun­da­tion of the gym­nas­tics and res­cue asso­ci­a­tion and thus also the vol­un­teer fire brigade

1867

Berlin-Görlitz rail­way con­nec­tion is opened

1869

Foun­da­tion of the Land­skron brewery

1873

Görlitz becomes an inde­pen­dent city on Octo­ber 1st

1896

Kaiser Wil­helm grants the may­or the right to wear an offi­cial chain

1897

the first elec­tric tram runs through Görlitz

1905

Low­er Sile­sian trade exhi­bi­tion with 11,400 exhibitors and 1.5 mil­lion visitors

1925

Air­field opened

events in görlitz

 

Please vis­it Görlitz.de for events and oth­er use­ful information.

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