Moving to and from Görlitz

The permit is issued by the road traffic section at Hugo-Keller-Straße 14, room 254. A contact sheet on the page gives consultation hours on Tuesday from 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 18:00, on Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 and on Friday from 9:00 to 12:00. There are no hours on Monday or Wednesday.

For urgent cases the page offers an appointment by telephone, and it lists two direct lines. If your moving day is close, ring rather than wait for the next open morning. The application itself uses a form linked from the page.

Once you hold the permit, you or the firm you hire obtain the no-parking signs, put them up at least three full days before the move and take them down after it. Each sign needs an additional board with the start of the restriction, a date and a time, and all signs must meet the traffic code. The page links a leaflet on setting up no-parking signs and a list of authorised firms, which this guide does not name.

Two warnings apply. Without the authority’s prior approval, traffic signs are not valid and must not be put up. Barriers of your own, such as chairs or ropes, are also not allowed.

The page closes with an offer: where the location does not permit a vehicle to be parked in the normal way for the move, the traffic section says it can help. Describe the spot in the application and attach a photograph, because the section can then say whether a zone, an exemption or an alternative is the right answer.

The city’s website presents itself as the European city of Görlitz and Zgorzelec, and offers its pages in German, Polish, English and Czech. Zgorzelec lies across the river Neisse in Poland and is a separate municipality in another country. A removal order issued in Görlitz does not extend there, and a move across the border needs the Polish side’s own rules, which this guide does not cover.

Moving between Britain and Germany is covered in our customs and route guides; the Polish end is outside this site’s Germany section.

The Environment Agency’s register (opens in a new window) lists Görlitz only among the air-quality plans, with a plan dated 2008, and no environmental zone. In Saxony, Reformationstag on 31 October counts as a lorry-ban holiday under paragraph 30 of the traffic code (opens in a new window), whereas Corpus Christi and All Saints’ Day do not. The summer Saturday ordinance (opens in a new window) lists its A 4 only from the Kirchheim triangle to the Thuringian border near Herleshausen, so the A 4 into Saxony is not on it.

Destatis (opens in a new window) gives Bautzen 37,566 residents at the end of 2024, Zittau 25,286, Weißwasser 15,002, Löbau 14,467 and Niesky 8,956. None reaches 50,000. A search for removals in any of them ends here as a pointer; each has its own authority, so the 14 euro order is for Görlitz streets only.

Dresden and Chemnitz have guides of their own.

Our customs guide explains the paperwork for a UK household arriving, and Germany to UK removals the return.