Zgorzelec

Zgorzelec is a city in south-western Poland with 32,322 inhabitants. It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the seat of Zgorzelec County, and additionally of the smaller district of Gmina Zgorzelec. Zgorzelec is positioned on the Lusatian Neisse river, at the put up-1945 Polish-German Neisse border adjoining the German town of Gorlitz, of which it constituted the eastern element as much as 1945. Up until 1945, the present day-day cities of Zgorzelec and Gorlitz have been a single entity; their history up to that point is shared.

The date of the city's basis is unknown. It turned into first referred to in 1071. At that time Gorlitz turned into a small village named Gorelic in the place of Lusatia, which quickly after have become part of Bohemia. In the 13th century the village step by step was a metropolis. It have become rich because of its vicinity on the Via Regia, an historical and medieval trade road.

In the subsequent centuries it turned into a wealthy member of the Six-City League of Upper Lusatia, such as the six Lusatian cities Bautzen, Gorlitz, Kamenz, Lauban, Lobau and Zittau. The metropolis of Gorlice in southern Poland become based at some stage in the reign of Casimir the Great in 1354 via ethnic German colonists from Gorlitz, in the remaining stages of eastward agreement with the aid of Germans.