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came a divided city. The smaller part, lo- Many are proud of their city. Not neces-
cated on the eastern side of the Neisse, be- sarily of its enormous show value, but of
came the independent Polish town of what lives on in Görlitz, in its street names,
Zgorzelec. Only after the border controls in the vocabulary and tone of the lan-
between Poland and Germany ended in De- guage, this East Lusatian dialect, and, of
cember 2007 could Görlitz and Zgorzelec course, in its buildings in which generations
become one city again slowly - now in two have left their memories behind.
countries. The fact that a national border is www.goerlitz.de
crossed while strolling across the Old Town
Bridge is only noticeable by the poles in the
respective national colors which rise up on Above: View across the Neisse
both sides of the riverbank. River from Poland
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