GORLITZ, a town in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the left bank of the Neisse, 62 m. E. from Dresden on the railway to Breslau, and at the junction of lines to Berlin, Zittau and Halle. Pop. Gorlitz is an ancient village, which, as Drebenau, received civic rights at the beginning of the 12th cen tury. After a fire in 1131, it was rebuilt and called Zgorzelice. About the end of the 12th century it was strongly fortified, and for a short time it was the capital of a duchy of Gorlitz. It also suffered considerably in the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years' War. In 1815 the town, with the greater part of Upper Lusatia, came into the possession of Prussia. Gorlitz is wealthy, owing to the extensive municipal forests of 70,00o acres. The fine Gothic church of St. Peter and St. Paul dates from the 15th century; the Frauen Kirche (end 15th cent.) possesses a fine portal and choir in pierced work; the Kloster Kirche, restored in 1868, has handsome choir stalls and a carved altar dating from 1383. The old bastion, named Kaisertrutz, has been used as a guardhouse and armoury. Near the town is the chapel of the Holy Cross, where there is a model of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem made during the 15th century. In the public park there is a bust of Schiller and a monument to Alexander von Humboldt, also a statue of the mystic Jakob Bohme (1575-1624). There is a large library and a rich collection of antiquities, coins and articles of virtu. Gorlitz, next to Breslau, is the largest and most flourishing commercial town of Silesia, and is classic for study of German Renaissance architecture. Cloth is manufactured, also various linen and woollen wares, machines, railway wagons, glass, sago, tobacco, leather, chemicals and tiles. .