On a wide park-like plot in the villa district of the Görlitzer Südstadt stands the Villa Arnade which was designed in 1916 by the architect Robert Weber for the Görlitzer leather goods manufacturer Ernst Arnade.

A Jewish quarter and a Jewish population are attested until their expulsion in the 14th century.

The villa at the end of Goethestraße was considered at the time of its construction as the most beautiful Görlitzer Art Nouveau villa, built in 1909 for the ironworker Martin Ephraim. The villa was completed according to the plans of the architect Professor Hugo Behr. During his lifetime, Martin Ephraim was one of the city's greatest men, a city councilor and a member of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce in Gürlitz/Breslau. His life ended in 1944 in Theresienstadt.

In the house, Elisabethstraße 36 in Görlitz Hildegard Burjan was born as Hildegard Lea Freund 1883 and lived there for several years with her family. The father had set up a shop on the first floor.

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled at the birthplace of the Austrian children's and youth author Mira Lobe in Görlitz on Struvestrasse 9. The occasion was the 100th birthday of the writer, who was born Hilde Miriam Rosenthal on September 17, 1913 in the new town. Her best-known work is "Das kleine Ich bin Ich".

With the department store Totschek and also the fashion house Meirowsky arose on the Steinstra;e to this day existing relics of the department store culture at the beginning of the 19th century, which significantly enriched the Görlitzer city center and attracted customers from the entire city perimeter to the shopping pleasure.

The property on Salomonstra;e in the city center of Görlitz was built around 1883 with a residential and commercial building including a rear building. The cloth manufacturer Louis Stiasny had the rear building rebuilt in 1893. He used it as a salesroom for the scarves, bags, neckerchiefs and other accessories for ladies that he produced. Because of the building situation, only the courtyard side could be provided with windows, Stiasny had a glass-roofed atrium designed.

The beginnings of the Ephraim hardware store date back to the middle of the 19th century. In 1902 the company moved to the site with a railway siding behind the Schützenhaus on Zittauer Strasse. Iron and iron structures of the Ephraim Eisenhandlung were used for well-known new buildings in Gürlitz before 1914: hospital, new barracks, hall of fame, joint-stock brewery, town hall, department store, town theater and also the hall complex of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft at the Schützenhaus in Gürlitz Südstadt.

The name Arnade in Görlitz is permanently associated with the suitcase factory. Its roots go back to 1872. At that time, the 28-year-old company founder Julius Arnade founded a leather goods and suitcase factory. Ten employees were producing until a fire in 1876 on Peterstra;e in the old town. Julius Arnade used the misfortune to rebuild the company on a larger scale in Moys. The upswing of the founding years and the increasing possibilities for travel favored his business.

Built as an Art Nouveau department store "Zum Strauss" by the Jewish merchant Louis Friedländer on the model of the Wertheim department store in Berlin, the Görlitz department store is the only one of its era that still exists today in its original structural form. The building impresses above all with its colossal interior architecture.