Görlitz

American  

[gœr-lits] / ˈgœr lɪts /

noun

1. a city in E Germany, on the Neisse River, at the Polish boundary.

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Görlitz British  

/ ˈɡœrlɪts /

noun

1. a city in E Germany, in Saxony on the Neisse River: divided in 1945, the area on the E bank of the river becoming the Polish town of Zgorzelec . Pop: 58 518 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

At the bridge linking the Polish town of Zgorzelec to its German sister city of Görlitz, wires erected for electrifying the railway line abruptly stop where Germany begins.

From New York Times

Born in Görlitz, a town of 55,000 that hugs the Polish border, Kretschmer served in the federal parliament for 15 years before running for the state premiership in 2017.

From Washington Post

Hussein’s planned onward trip to northern France and then Britain was interrupted after he sent the message when German police intercepted him in the east German border town of Gorlitz, the biology graduate told Reuters.

From Reuters

Police in Gorlitz and the German interior ministry declined to comment.

From Reuters

In “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” we were in Görlitz, Germany, a dollhouse candy box of a town near the border of Poland, and we were all together exclusively in this wonderful little hotel.

From New York Times