Zgorzelec

Zgorzelec is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, where it is the seat of Zgorzelec County. It is also the seat of Gmina Zgorzelec, although it lies outside that gmina's territory because the town forms an urban gmina in its own right. The town stands on the Lusatian Neisse river on the Polish-German border, next to the German town of Görlitz, of which it formed the eastern part until 1945; its German name is Görlitz, and it also has Upper Sorbian, Czech and Lower Sorbian names. Over its history it has been under German, Polish and Czech rule. It is known for a large German-operated prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers in the Second World War, as the place where the Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed, and as the home of the Turów Zgorzelec basketball team. It had 30,374 inhabitants in 2019.