On the tracks of Jacob Böhme in Görlitz

Jacob Böhme passed 30 years of his life in Görlitz including his professional starts as a shoemaker, his long phase of creative work and his burial. Those who visit Görlitz and its history will discover many traces of Jacob Böhme: places of living, places of inspiration and places of conflicts with the ecclesiastical order, which considered his enthusiastic faith as a provocation. Persons who appreciate Boehme's work will enjoy feeling the history and soul of the great mystic in many places in the city at the Neisse River.
During the tour you will visit places of living as well as places of his intellectual world and places of memory such as his grave at St. Nicholas' Cemetery or the memorial in "Park des Friedens". In the Polish part of the City, Zgorzelec, you can also find traces of Jacob Böhme, for example his dwelling with an exhibition.