Walking through Görlitz is like taking a trip through time. As you walk the streets of our old town, you’ll see original and lovingly restored historic buildings from many different eras – Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Gründerzeit and Jugendstil. The city has over 4,000 protected historical monuments! To put this in perspective, Berlin only has about 1500.
Compared to other European cities of its size and cultural wealth, Görlitz has been very fortunate and was mostly spared destruction during the tumultuous events of the last century. This is why so many of its original old town is still standing.
Not only were the buildings spared, but since the fall of the wall, the old town has been lovingly restored with big help from a mysterious donor who donated about 500,000 Euros each year for twenty-one years. The generous donor’s identity remains a secret!