Horka (Upper Sorbian: Hórka, pronounced [ˈhʊʁka], Polish: Górka)[3] is a municipality in the district Görlitz, Saxony, in eastern Germany, close to the border with Poland.

In 1469 it passed to Hungary, and in 1490 it returned to the Czech Crown, then under the rule of Polish Prince Vladislaus II.

[7] In 1936, the Nazi government renamed the village to Wehrkirch to erase traces of Sorbian origin.

[4] During World War II, on April 26, 1945, the Germans carried out a massacre of a field hospital column of the 9th Polish Armored Division, killing some 300 POWs, mostly wounded soldiers and medical personnel (the Horka massacre [pl]).

[4] In 1988, a rail accident occurred near Horka that killed five East German and three Polish citizens.