Editing Zgorzelec (section)

===Modern period===
[[File:Fotothek df rp-e 0130071 Görlitz. Dreiradenmühle, aus, Die Mühle vom 23.6.1927.jpg|thumb|left|The ''Tricycle Mill'' in the 1920s]]
After suffering for years in the [[Thirty Years' War]], the region of Upper Lusatia (including Görlitz) passed to [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]] (1635), whose [[Prince-elector|Electors]] were also Kings of Poland from 1697. One of the two main routes connecting [[Warsaw]] and [[Dresden]] ran through the city at that time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dresden-warszawa.eu/pl/prolog/informacja-historyczna/|title=Informacja historyczna, Dresden-Warszawa|access-date=June 1, 2019}}</ref>

In 1815, after the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the [[Congress of Vienna]] awarded Görlitz to the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] and subsequently the city became part of the [[German Empire]] in 1871. The city was a part of the Prussian province of [[Silesia]] from 1815 to 1919.