What is Görlitz?
{{Foreignchar|ö|Goerlitz}} {{Infobox German location | type = Stadt |image_photo={{Photomontage|position=center | photo1a = Goerlitz stadtansicht.jpg | photo2a = Görlitz-Karstadt-Jugendstil.jpg | photo2b = Görlitz, Frenzelhof (Untermarkt 5).jpg | photo3a = Görlitz - Landeskrone (Reichenbacher Turm) 01 ies.jpg | photo3b = 13-11-02-olb-by-RalfR-03.jpg | size = 280 | spacing = 2 | color = | border = 0 | foot_montage = {{nobreak|From top: View over Görlitz,}}<br> inside [[Görlitz Department Store]], Untermarkt (market square),<br>Landeskrone (Sedło) mountain, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences (Oberlausitzische Bibliothek der Wissenschaften) }} | image_coa = Wappen Goerlitz vector.svg | image_flag = DEU Görlitz flag.svg | coordinates = {{coord|51|09|10|N|14|59|14|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | image_plan = Görlitz in GR.svg | state = Sachsen | district = Görlitz | elevation = 199 | area = 67.22 | population = 56461 | Stand = 2008–12–31 | pop_ref = [http://www.statistik.sachsen.de/appsl1/Gemeindetabelle/jsp/GMDAGS.jsp?Jahr=2009&Ags=14626110 source] | postal_code = 02826–02828 | area_code = 03581 | licence = GR | Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 6 26 110 | divisions = 10 town- and 8 village-[[Quarter (country subdivision)|quarters]] | website = {{URL|www.goerlitz.de}} | mayor = Siegfried Deinege }} '''Görlitz''' ({{Audio-IPA|De-Görlitz.ogg|[ˈɡœɐ̯lɪʦ]}}, [[sorbian languages|Upper Sorbian]]: ''Zhorjelc'', {{lang-cs|Zhořelec}}, {{lang-pl|Zgorzelec}}, Upper Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz, Gerltz'' or ''Gerltsch'') is a town in [[Germany]] on the river [[Lusatian Neisse]], in the ''[[States of Germany|Bundesland]]'' (''Federal State'') of [[Saxony]], opposite the Polish town of [[Zgorzelec]]. Zgorzelec was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically Görlitz has belonged at times to the regions of [[Lusatia]] and [[Silesia]]. Today it is the