Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Görlitz, Germany

The Ochsenbastei in Görlitz is part of the former city fortifications near St. Peter's Church. While the actual "Tor an der Kahle" was demolished in 1834, the rotunda of the bastion and the ox kennel were preserved.

Wikipedia: Ochsenbastei (DE)

The Biblical House is a town house in the old town of Görlitz. The house got its nickname because of its reliefs on the façade on the first and second floors. They depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments. It is located on the Neißstraße, the connection between Untermarkt and the Old Town Bridge over the Lusatian Neisse and, along with the Schönhof, is one of the most famous Renaissance buildings in the city. In its neighbouring building to the west – the baroque corner house at Neißstraße 30 – is the Görlitz Museum of Cultural History.

Wikipedia: Biblisches Haus (DE), Heritage Website

The Baroque House Neißstraße 30 is a major commercial and residential building of the Baroque period in Görlitz, which has been used since 1951 as part of the Municipal History Museum. It is located in the middle of the old town on Neißstraße 30.

Wikipedia: Barockhaus Neißstraße 30 (DE), Heritage Website

The brown deer is a baroque community center in the city of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia. The corner house is located on the eastern side of the undermarket and on the Neißstraße, which continues towards the Altstadtbrücke over the Lausitzer Neisse.

Wikipedia: Brauner Hirsch (Görlitz) (DE), Heritage Website

The Waage is a Renaissance house in the town of Görlitz in eastern Upper Lusatia. It is located on the Untermarkt and is part of the so-called row in the middle of the square. The scale structurally completes the row on the southeastern side.

Wikipedia: Waage (Görlitz) (DE), Heritage Website

The Hallenhaus Untermarkt 5 is a protected cultural monument located opposite the town hall on the Untermarkt in Görlitz. Built in the 15th century, the Frenzelhof is one of the oldest hall houses in Görlitz. For the construction phase around 1500, there are a number of historical references that are associated with the name Hans Frenzel.

Wikipedia: Frenzelhof (DE), Heritage Website

The Schönhof is the oldest Renaissance-building in Görlitz, Germany. The building on Bretheren Street 8 (Brüderstraße) was constructed by Wendel Roskopf in 1526 over the surviving stone foundations after the town fire in 1525.

Wikipedia: Schönhof (Görlitz) (EN), Heritage Website

The town hall of the city of Görlitz has been a place of urban administration, power and jurisdiction since about 1350; In 1369 it was first documented as a town hall by a certificate from the Görlitz Council. Its magnificent interior decreases into the Renaissance period. It consists of several coherent buildings on the Untermarkt 6–8 and is now the seat of several offices.

Wikipedia: Görlitzer Rathaus (DE)

The Silesian Museum in Görlitz was opened on 13 May 2006 in an architecturally newly composed complex that combines four historic buildings: the Schönhof, the Mittelhaus, the building at the fish market, both of which date back to 1832, and the Hallenhaus at Untermarkt 4.

Wikipedia: Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz (DE), Website

The Brüderstraße in Görlitz is part of the historic city centre and has numerous buildings from the Renaissance. It connects the Görlitz Obermarkt with the Untermarkt and is part of the Via regia. It is named after the Franciscan friars, to whose former monastery on the Obermarkt the Brüdergasse led.

Wikipedia: Brüderstraße (Görlitz) (DE)

The Trinity Church is a Protestant church in Görlitz, Germany. It was built between 1234 and 1245 as the monastery church of the Franciscan monastery on today's Obermarkt. In 1564 the monastery was converted into a grammar school, the church served as a school church and since 1712 as a parochial church.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Görlitz) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Upper Market Square in Görlitz is the largest square in the historic part of the town. It was laid out in 1250 together with the Lower Market Square. Both are connected via the Bretheren Street (Brüderstraße). While the Lower Market is mostly bordered by Renaissance buildings, the Upper Market has many buildings from the Baroque and Wilhelminian periods. It is therefore the gateway to the historic part of the town. Important buildings on the market include Reichenbach Tower, Kaisertrutz and Holy Trinity Church (Dreifaltigkeitskirche).

Wikipedia: Upper Market Square (Görlitz) (EN)

The Reichenbach Tower probably built in the 13th century and first mentioned in 1376 is the western part of the historic fortification of Görlitz. With a height of 51m it is the tallest of the three fortified towers in Görlitz..

Wikipedia: Reichenbach Tower (Görlitz) (EN)

The Kaisertrutz is one of the once 32 bastions, four of which are still preserved today, which the city of Görlitz possessed for defense.

Wikipedia: Kaisertrutz (DE)

The list of stumbling stones in Görlitz contains all 81 stumbling stones that were laid at 29 locations in the city of Görlitz as part of the project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. Three of them, for the Goldberg family, commemorate Jewish families in the former eastern town of Zgorzelec in Görlitz. They are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Görlitz.

Wikipedia: Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Görlitz (DE)