The "Wählt Thälmann!" inscription was painted on the cemetery wall in 1985 because the GDR television shot scenes here for the two-part film "Ernst Thälmann" on the occasion of Thälmann's 100th birthday. The wall with the lettering can still be visited today and serves excellently as a photo backdrop for the personal Görliwood visit.
In 2013, this location also served as a fictional cemetery wall as a film set for the famous tragicomedy "The Grand Budapest Hotel". The film crew painted over the metre-long lettering and turned it into the "Old Lutz Cemetery". After filming, the wall had to be restored to its original state with the inscription "Wählt Thälmann!" The film crew of "The Reader" also used the Bergstraße down to the Uferstraße for some scenes.
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Openings
Open all year round.
Directions & Parking facilities
Anreise
By car, drive to Elisabethstraße and use the numerous parking spaces there. On foot it is only a few metres to the end of Elisabethstaße and then follow Jakob-Böhme-Straße to Bergstraße.
Parken
Numerous parking spaces are located in Elisabethstraße.
Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel
Take tram line 1 or 2 to the Demianiplatz stop, then cross Marienplatz to Elisabethplatz. Follow Elisabethstraße for about 5 min, then along Jakob-Böhme-Straße to Bergstraße.
By car, drive to Elisabethstraße and use the numerous parking spaces there. On foot it is only a few metres to the end of Elisabethstaße and then follow Jakob-Böhme-Straße to Bergstraße.
Parken
Numerous parking spaces are located in Elisabethstraße.
Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel
Take tram line 1 or 2 to the Demianiplatz stop, then cross Marienplatz to Elisabethplatz. Follow Elisabethstraße for about 5 min, then along Jakob-Böhme-Straße to Bergstraße.
Author
Europastadt GörlitzZgorzelec GmbH
Organization
Das Landschaftswunderland Oberlausitz
License (master data)
Europastadt GörlitzZgorzelec GmbH
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