Saxony
Upper Lusatia
Görlitz

Görlitz

Görlitz is 's easternmost town. It sits across the Neiße River from its sister city of Zgorzelec. It is very well preserved, and survived the Second World War more or less intact.
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  • Type: Town with 57,300 residents
  • Description: town in Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “Goerlitz” and “Gorlitz”
  • Postal code: 02628

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aldi and Görlitz station.

Supermarket
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, styled as , is the common company brand name of two multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries.

Railway station
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is the central station of the city of Görlitz in the German state of . Of the original twelve station tracks only six are still in operation. Görlitz is also served by stations in Rauschwalde, Weinhübel and Hagenwerder.

Library
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The contains about 150,000 volumes, making it the largest library in Görlitz and the most important regional library between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zgorzelec and Innenstadt.

Town
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is a town in , in southwestern , with 30,374 inhabitants. It is the seat of and of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Görlitz

Latitude
51.1563° or 51° 9′ 23″ north
Longitude
14.991° or 14° 59′ 28″ east
Population
57,300
Elevation
210 metres (689 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE GOR
Open location code
9F3P5X4R+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240127287
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2918987
Wiki­data ID
Q4077
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Görlitz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Görlitz”
  • Arabic: “جورليتس”
  • Arabic: “غرلتس”
  • Arabic: “غرليتز”
  • Arabic: “غورلتس”
  • Arabic: “غورليتس”
  • Aragonese: “Görlitz”
  • Armenian: “Գյոռլից”
  • Armenian: “Գյորլից”
  • Bashkir: “Гёрлиц”
  • Basque: “Görlitz”
  • Belarusian: “Гёрліц”
  • Breton: “Görlitz”
  • Bulgarian: “Гьорлиц”
  • Catalan: “Görlitz”
  • Cebuano: “Görlitz (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Görlitz”
  • Chechen: “Гоьрлиц”
  • Chinese: “哥利茲”
  • Chinese: “格尔利茨”
  • Czech: “Görlitz”
  • Czech: “Zhořelec”
  • Danish: “Görlitz”
  • Dutch: “Görlitz”
  • Esperanto: “Görlitz”
  • Estonian: “Görlitz”
  • Finnish: “Görlitz”
  • French: “Gœrlitz”
  • French: “Görlitz”
  • Georgian: “გერლიცი”
  • German: “Gerltz”
  • German: “Görlitz”
  • Greek: “Γκέρλιτς”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Görlitz”
  • Hebrew: “גרליץ”
  • Hungarian: “Görlitz”
  • Ido: “Görlitz”
  • Indonesian: “Görlitz”
  • Irish: “Görlitz”
  • Italian: “Görlitz”
  • Italian: “Zgorzelec”
  • Italian: “Zhořelec”
  • Italian: “Zhorjelc”
  • Japanese: “ゲルリッツ”
  • Javanese: “Görlitz”
  • Kazakh: “Гёрлиц”
  • Kirghiz: “Гөрлиц”
  • Korean: “괴를리츠”
  • Kurdish: “Görlitz”
  • Ladin: “Görlitz”
  • Latin: “Gorlicium Germaniae”
  • Latvian: “Gerlica”
  • Lithuanian: “Giorlicas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Zgórjelc”
  • Luxembourgish: “Görlitz”
  • Macedonian: “Герлиц”
  • Malagasy: “Görlitz”
  • Malay: “Gorlitz”
  • Malay: “Görlitz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Görlitz (Stää)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Görlitz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Görlitz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Görlitz”
  • Norwegian: “Görlitz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Görlitz”
  • Persian: “گرلتس”
  • Persian: “گرلیتز”
  • Persian: “گرلیتس”
  • Piemontese: “Görlitz”
  • Polish: “Goerlitz”
  • Polish: “Gorlitz”
  • Polish: “Görlitz”
  • Polish: “Zgorzelec”
  • Portuguese: “Görlitz”
  • Romanian: “Görlitz”
  • Russian: “Гёрлиц”
  • Scots: “Görlitz”
  • Serbian: “Герлиц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Görlitz”
  • Silesian: “Görlitz”
  • Slovak: “Görlitz”
  • Slovenian: “Görlitz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قرلیتز”
  • Spanish: “Görlitz”
  • Swedish: “Görlitz”
  • Tatar: “Гөрлиц”
  • Tumbuka: “Görlitz”
  • Turkish: “Gerltz”
  • Turkish: “Görlitz”
  • Ukrainian: “Герліц”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґерліц”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zhorjelc”
  • Urdu: “گرلتس”
  • Urdu: “گورلٹز”
  • Uzbek: “Görlitz”
  • Vietnamese: “Görlitz”
  • Volapük: “Görlitz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Görlitz”
  • Welsh: “Görlitz”
  • Western Frisian: “Görlitz”
  • Western Panjabi: “گورلٹز”
  • Wu Chinese: “格尔利茨”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥利茲”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Görlitz”. Photo: Juri Kowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.