when nazi germany lost the war, german troops blew up all bridges crossing the lusatian neisse. the redrawing of boundaries in 1945 – in particular the relocation of the german-polish border to the oder-neisse line – divided the town, the right bank becoming part of poland, and named zgorzelec in 1948, while the main portion became part of the german state of saxony. when the east german states were dissolved in 1952, görlitz became part of the dresden bezirk (region), but the states were restored upon german reunification in 1990.