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3 unusual facts about Görlitz


Ebersbach-Neugersdorf

It was formed on 1 January 2011 by the merger of the former municipalities of Ebersbach and Neugersdorf.

LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II

and 18. Görlitzfahrt (Görlitz trip) launch: 16 August 1939 00:34 under captain Sammt

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

He was captured by the German army in June 1940 and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany (now Zgorzelec, Poland).


Albrecht Milnik

Albrecht Milnik (born November 10, 1931, in Hermsdorf, today Görlitz, as part of Gmina Zgorzelec) is a German forest scientist.

Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Bundesstraße 6

The former Reichsstraße 6 ran from Görlitz via Hirschberg and Schweidnitz to Breslau and from there via Oelsas far as the old Polish border near Groß Wartenberg.

Between Leipzig and Görlitz the B6 largely follows the historic course of the Via Regia (apart from the ring roads around Meißen, Dresden and Bischofswerda).

Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg

Only two dioceses in the former German Democratic Republic are without own structures (Dresden-Meissen and Görlitz), they are served by the neighbouring councils.

Dresden–Görlitz railway

A treaty between Prussia and Saxony signed on 24 July 1843 authorised the construction of a cross-border railway and its proposed connection to the Lower Silesian-Markish Railway from Görlitz to Węgliniec (Kohlfurt) was the first step in the building of the railway between Dresden and Görlitz.

Elias Hutter

Elias Hutter (Gorlitz or Ulm 1553-Nuremberg or Frankfurt,

Georg Mohr

He died in Kieslingswalde near Görlitz, Germany.

Görlitz station

The South-North German Connecting Railway (Süd-Norddeutsche Verbindungsbahn) was already planning a connection between Berlin and Vienna via Görlitz and Zawidów (Seidenberg).

Josef Goller

He created stained glasses for town halls in Nuremberg, Dresden, Chemnitz and for many churches and schools in Saxony, the synagogue of Görlitz, but also for the windows of the neo-Baroque Kaiserpalast, Dresden's most impressive private building that time, Dresden Zoo and Leipzig Hauptbahnhof.

Leutersdorf

Leutersdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Lusatian Lake District

Around the city of Leipzig, a new lake district is starting to develop, and there are other examples, such as the Bärwalder See and Berzdorfer See near the city of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

Marion van de Kamp

Born in Wuppertal to Dutch parents she attended the drama school in Dresden, East Germany and worked at theaters in Meiningen, Görlitz, Plauen, Schwerin and Leipzig.

MitOst

The culmination of the union year is an international MitOst festival that takes place annually in a new city (2003:Pécs/Hungary, 2004:Vilnius/Lithuania, 2005: Wrocław/Poland, 2006: Timișoara/Romania, 2007: Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Germany/Poland).

Mittelherwigsdorf

Mittelherwigsdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Orosz

Helma Orosz (born 1953, Görlitz), a German politician (member of the CDU)

Oybin

Oybin is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany, located very close to the border of the Czech Republic.

Rosenbach, Görlitz

Rosenbach is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Schönau-Berzdorf

Schönau-Berzdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Schönbach, Saxony

Schönbach is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Sissy Höfferer

On the show she has worked with directors such as Thomas Jauch, Dirk Regel, Helmut Metzger, Nicolai Müllerschön, Christian Görlitz and many more.

Tormod Granheim

On July 11, 2007, Tormod Granheim set out from New York City on the reed boat Abora3, captained by German scientist Dominique Görlitz.

Treaty of Zgorzelec

The Treaty of Zgorzelec (Full title The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz and Treaty of Zgorzelic) between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR) was signed on 6 July 1950 in Polish Zgorzelec, since 1945 the eastern part of the divided city of Görlitz.

Valentin Friedland

Friedland became a distinguished student at the University of Leipzig, learned Ciceronian Latin from Peter Mosellanus and Greek from Richard Croke, and after graduation was appointed assistant master in the school at Görlitz in 1515.

Friedland was born in Trozendorf near the town of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia, of parents so poor that they could not keep him at school.

Viktor de Kowa

He was born the son of a farmer and engineer in Hohkirch near Görlitz (present-day Przesieczany in Poland), from where his family moved to Seifersdorf near Dippoldiswalde in Saxony in 1908 and to Chemnitz in 1913.

Waggonbau Görlitz

The Görlitz plants have been sold to Bombardier Transportation in 1998 making them available under the Bombardier Double-deck Coach brand (not to be confused with the North-American Bombardier BiLevel Coaches).


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