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Crossing the Neisse: A Blog Tour Guide to the Historic Bridges of Görlitz and Zgorzelec
Altstadtbrücke over the Neisse. Source: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Welcome to Görlitz—Germany's easternmost city—and its twin city Zgorzelec just across the water in Poland. Divided abruptly by the Oder-Neisse line in the closing days of the Second World War, these two communities have evolved back into a single, unified "Europastadt". While Görlitz is world-famous for its remarkably preserved Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture (earning it the nickname "Görliwood"), its structural legacy is profoundly written along the banks and across the waters of the…