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

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 • Nov. 23, 2021

Ian Bateson in Görlitz and Florian Neuhof and Rick Noack in Berlin contributed to this report.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

The picturesque German city Görlitz, which borders Poland, is offering free lodging and studio space in exchange for feedback on what potential residents would like from a city.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2019

Dehmelt was born in Görlitz, Germany, in 1922, to a couple that struggled for economic survival in the post-war years of turmoil and hyper-inflation.

From Nature • May 16, 2017

But here in Görlitz, far from the firing line, even a rational man, when he is troubled, begins to imagine things.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold