Start the route at the Görlitz information at Obermarkt. Here you can also get a city map and more information. Now follow Brüderstraße to Untermarkt. The cafes and restaurants invite you to enjoy, and you can stroll comfortably in the arcades of the magnificent trading houses from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Here you will also find probably the most beautiful tower (town hall tower) of the city in the heart of the old town.
Now follow Peterstraße to the Peterskirche, the city's landmark perched high above the Neisse river. Take a look inside the Peterskirche with its impressive solar organ. The solar organ playing takes place throughout the year on Sundays and public holidays at 12:00 pm (additionally from April to October also on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 pm).
From the Peterskirche, you can reach the old town bridge in a few minutes. Today the pedestrian bridge connects at a historic site the German and Polish parts of the European city Görlitz/Zgorzelec and symbolically stands for the merging of both cities.
If you now stroll along Neißstraße, the over 900-year-old trade route VIA REGIA, you can discover the Baroque house on the left side. Right next to the Baroque house is the Biblical House with its beautiful façade.
Via Weberstraße you will reach Bäckerstraße. From here it is only a few meters to Klosterplatz. The striking building was once a monastery and today is part of the Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium.
You reach Elisabethstraße via Klosterstraße. Elisabethstraße (also: Elisabethplatz) connects the city center and the historic old town of Görlitz. Follow Elisabethstraße to Marienplatz. Particularly striking here are the Thick Tower, the water playground, and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History. Numerous seating options invite you to relax.
You reach the last point of the old town tour via Steinstraße. Obermarkt is one of the largest and most beautiful squares in Görlitz. It stretches from the Reichenbacher Tower to the Herold Fountain. Along the square ran the old trade route VIA REGIA, which connected East and Western Europe. Today there are numerous hotels, restaurants, cafes, the Görlitz information center, and parking spaces. This is where the old town tour ends.
