Görlitz (deu)

Görlitz

Görlitz ranks 1,113th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Villach, Tokushima (city), and Mansoura, Egypt. Memorable people born in Görlitz include Hans Georg Dehmelt, Michael Ballack, and Oskar Morgenstern. Memorable people who died in Görlitz include Jakob Böhme, and Ludwig von Falkenhausen. Görlitz has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many philosophers, and military personnels. Görlitz is located in Germany.

Görlitz is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is on the river Lusatian Neisse and is the largest town in Upper Lusatia as well as the second-largest town in the region of Lusatia after Cottbus. Görlitz is the easternmost town in Germany and lies opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was the eastern part of Görlitz until 1945. The town has approximately 56,000 inhabitants, which make Görlitz the sixth-largest town in Saxony. It is the seat of the district of Görlitz. Together with Zgorzelec it forms the Euro City of Görlitz/Zgorzelec, which has a combined population of around 86,000. Whilst not Lusatiophone itself, the town is situated just east of the Sorbian-speaking parts of Lusatia. Read more on Wikipedia