The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help

Vernacular Display | English Display

Click the icon to view the hierarchy.

Semantic View (JSONJSONLDRDFN3/TurtleN-Triples)

ID: 7012813
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012813

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Görlitz (inhabited place)  Görlitz (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 015 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.0000  decimal degrees

Note: The eastern German city of Görlitz is situated on the Neisse river, across from the town of Zgorzelec, Poland, which was part of the city prior to World War II. The site was initially the Slav town of Gorelić, first recorded in 1071. It was ruled by Bohemia in the 13th century, was chartered in 1303, and was a member of the Federation of Lusatian Cities after 1346. It passed to Saxony in 1635, then to Prussia in 1815. Surviving historic architecture includes a medieval representation of the Holy Sepulcher, the ruins of a fortress built in the 14th century, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul built 1423-1497, and many houses built in the Baroque style. Görlitz attained its economic peak in medieval times with the local industry of fine textile production, which in the Baroque era also included the production of linen. Today it still has a textile industry, and also produces railway cars, electrotechnical products, woodworking, and machinery. It is the commercial center of the region of Upper Lusatia, and a railway junction that makes it the transport center of a major lignite production area. The calculated population for 2005 was 57,097.

Names:
Görlitz (preferred,C,V)
Goerlitz (NA,V)
Gorelić (H,V)  ............ name of original Slavic settlement

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Saxony (state)  ............  Saxony (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Görlitz (inhabited place)  ................  Görlitz (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Slavs, first documented in 1071, chartered in 1303
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  has been important center for textile production since Middle Ages; now has railway cars, machinery and wood factories
mining center (C)
transportation center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Oberlausitz (Upper Lusatia), 14th century
religious center (H)  ............  base of Christian mystic Jakob Boehme (1575-1624); site of 15th-century SS Peter and Paul church and reproduction of Holy Sepulcher

Sources and Contributors:
Goerlitz..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Gorelić..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 376
Görlitz..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 342
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. 3rd ed.(2001)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 75
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 342
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 376
..................  Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. 3rd ed.(2001)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1777715
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 75
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Görlitz." The eastern German city of Görlitz is situated on the Neisse river, across from the town of Zgorzelec, Poland, which was part of the city prior to World War II. The site was initially the Slav town of Gorelic, first recorded in 1071. It was ruled by Bohemia in the 13th century, was chartered in 1303, and was a member of the Federation of Lusatian Cities after 1346. It passed to Saxony in 1635, then to Prussia in 1815. Surviving historic architecture includes a medieval representation of the Holy Sepulcher, the ruins of a fortress built in the 14th century, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul built 1423-1497, and many houses built in the Baroque style. Görlitz attained its economic peak in medieval times with the local industry of fine textile production, which in the Baroque era also included the production of linen. Today it still has a textile industry, and also produces railway cars, electrotechnical products, woodworking, and machinery. It is the commercial cen

 

New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version

The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust