Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Görlitz, Germany

The cathedral of St. Jakobus in Görlitz, Germany, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Görlitz, dedicated to St. James. It was built in neo-Gothic style and consecrated in 1900 as a parish church. It became a cathedral in 1994, due to the reorganisation of East German dioceses.

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The Church of the Holy Spirit is a church building built between 1905 and 1906 by the Old Lutheran parish in Görlitz, Upper Lusatia. Today, the congregation belongs to the church district of Lusatia in the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church. The church is located on Sattigplatz at the junction of Zittauer Straße / An der Jakobuskirche. It is the parish church of the Old Lutheran parish of Görlitz and is a listed building. The parish office is located in the house Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 31.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Görlitz) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The rectangular Wilhelmsplatz in the southern city centre is the largest town square in Görlitz with an east-west extension of over 200 m and a north-south spread of around 100 m. The middle of the square is a large lawn framed by flower beds as planting bands. A row of hedges and trees separates the green square from the busy Jakobstraße in the west. Wilhelmsplatz is located between the city centre and Görlitz train station.

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The Joliot Curie-Gymnasium is a general education school in the secondary education area, which leads to university entrance qualification. The school, which emerged from the Luisenschule, is located on the north side of the Wilhelmsplatz in the eastern Saxon city of Görlitz. It is one of two high schools in the city and is in its sponsorship. The high school offers the natural and social science profile.

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The Straßburg-Passage is a shopping arcade built in Görlitz in 1908. It is an Art Nouveau monument and connects Berliner Straße with Wilhelmsplatz.

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The Muschelminna, also known as the Toberentz Fountain after its architect Robert Toberentz, is a fountain built in 1887 on the Postplatz in the city of Görlitz. The name originated from the vernacular, which referred to the bronze statue standing on the marble pedestal. The statue was melted down during World War II. Since 1994, a faithful replica has been on display on the fountain.

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The Frauenkirche is a three -aisled hall church in the late Gothic style. The church was once at the gates of the city of Görlitz. However, it is now in the middle of the center and shapes the image of the city center. In autumn 1989 she was the starting point of the prayers of peace in the city.

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The Görlitz Theatre is a theatre building for opera and drama in the city of Görlitz, Saxony, Germany. The building is popularly known as the Kleine Semperoper because of its opulent interior.

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The Museum of Natural History in Görlitz, Germany is a natural history museum with focus on zoology, botany and geology. Since 2009, the museum has been part of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung with headquarters in Frankfurt/Main. The main field of research is soil biology. In the years 2006 to 2017 the number of visitors was between 25,000 and 34,000, in the year of the 3rd Saxon State Exhibition 2011 it was even 47,000.

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St. Anne's Chapel on Görlitz's Marienplatz was built between 1508 and 1511 by the council architect Albrecht Stieglitzer as a memorial chapel for the Görlitz merchant Hans Frenzel the Rich (1463–1526). It was dedicated to St. Anne, the patron saint of Frenceslas. Later it was used as an orphanage and penitentiary church. Today, the former chapel is used as a gymnasium and auditorium for the adjacent St. Anne's School.

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The Thick Tower erected in 1250 is part of the historic fortification of Görlitz. The 46-metre (151 ft) tall tower is the most massive tower in the city. Its walls in the lower part reach a thickness of 5.34 metres (17.5 ft), thus the name of a thick tower. Apart from it, the Nikolai Tower and the Reichenbach Tower are still preserved. In total, Görlitz had four large watchtowers and defense towers.

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The Görlitz department store, also known as Zum Strauss and Görlitz department store, is a listed building in Görlitz, Germany, which was built in the style of historicism and decorated with elements of Art Nouveau.

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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.

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The Holy Cross Church was the first post-Reformation Catholic church building in the city of Görlitz and is located in the immediate vicinity of the synagogue and the city park.

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The Görlitz Synagogue in Görlitz, Germany was built between 1909 and 1911 in the Art Nouveau style and was the main place of worship for the city's Jewish community. Despite an arson attack, the synagogue was one of the few synagogues in the area to survive Kristallnacht, sustaining only minor damage. The damage could have been greater, but was lessened because the firefighters ignored the orders to let the synagogue burn. With the city's Jewish population depleted, the unused synagogue became a ruin in the following decades. In 1991, a restoration project began which was completed in December 2020. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening ceremony was postponed until 2021. The synagogue duly opened on July 12, 2021. On September 12, 2022, a new Magen David was placed on top of the synagogue.

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The Stadtpark is an inner-city green space in the city of Görlitz in Saxony, Germany.

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The Stadthalle is a concert hall in Görlitz, Germany. From its opening in 1910 until its closure in 2005, the building has been used for numerous different cultural events, including concerts, sporting events and trade fairs. A planned renovation was abandoned in 2012. The Förderverein Stadthalle Görlitz e.V. is committed to the preservation of the cultural monument.

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The Freisebad is a former bathing establishment on Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee in downtown Görlitz in Saxony.

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The Obermühle was one of the three large flour mills of the city of Görlitz on the Lusatian Neisse. The mill ceased operations in 1994, but parts of the buildings are still used as a restaurant and guesthouse today. The Obermühle is home to the easternmost beer brewery in Germany.

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