The inflow and outflow of goods from western and southern Upper Lusatia or to these areas was severely impeded by the border between Prussia and Saxony that had now been created.

On the market there were again traders like knitters, stocking sellers, beaders, Bohemian farmers with wooden boards, residents of Rothwasser with their shingles, ladders, brooms and numerous other products.

Also in 1804, the double house Upper Market Square No.3 was demolished by the salt administrator Christian Friedrich Görcke and replaced by a wider new building.

Two personalities were connected with those: Hans Karl von Winterfeldt wounded in the Battle of Moys, died in the night from September 7 to 8, 1757 in the house No.11.

[3] In 1909/10, the Holy Trinity Church was thoroughly renovated; the artist Adolf Quensen from Braunschweig provided the walls and vaults with romanticizing paintings.

[4]: 60 With the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the regular parades of the Görlitz garrison troops on the Upper Market Square ended.

A few years later with Hitler's seizure of power, the Reich flags finally disappeared in the attics of local residents, where they were rediscovered a few decades later.

[4]: 78 On the square after Adolf Hitler's seizure of control on January 30, 1933, more and more swastika flags hoisted from windows of private apartments and stores.

The Oberlausitzer Tagespost (Upper Lusatian Daily) and Der Stürmer overflowed with insinuations and fabrications, all of which collapsed after a trial that ended with an acquittal for Dresel and an embarrassment for the masterminds.

Despite his acquittal, Artur Dresel was sent to the court prison in Breslau, where he allegedly put an end to his own life shortly afterwards.

He placed a larger-than-life mourning female figure on a ledge at first-floor level between the two entrances to the Ullrich Funeral Home.

To the left of the funeral service's shop window, a bronze relief with figures from the local legend of the Night Blacksmith was placed at eye level.

In the following years, windows had to be darkened for air-raid protection reasons, the ration stamps for food and clothing made their way into the lives of citizens, and schoolchildren in uniforms collected for the Winterhilfswerk.

Among them were Studienrat Paul Gatter (dismissed from teaching at the Augustum Gymnasium on Klosterplatz in 1933), Hermann Arndt, Fritz Biermann, Dr. Schiller of the Free Religious Congregation, and Wilhelm Baumgart, former chairman of the local SPD association.

The Social Democrat Willy Leisten, who belonged to the resistance group, became a victim of Stalinist persecution in the second German dictatorship and ended his life in a Soviet gulag.

1946, up to 10,000 people, including factory workers, students and members of the newly founded parties gathered for a large rally on the Upper Market Square.

Some of them carried banners that read "Nie wieder Krieg" (Never again war) or "Frieden - Einheit - Aufbau" (Peace - Unity - Rebuilding).

Among the tenants were numerous refugees from Silesia and the eastern suburbs of Görlitz on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse (later Zgorzelec belonging to Poland).

Only on closer inspection does the observer discover clues that speak for a new building, e.g. on the basis of the inscription of the coat of arms sign above the entrance.

The later President Wilhelm Pieck gave a speech on the square and particularly pointed out the aid measures for industry, schools and new citizens.

However, the grandstand was to stand on the square for only 20 years, after which it was demolished because the May parades were now held on Platz der Befreiung (Site of Liberation) (now Postplatz).

From a file in the city archives it is evident that on August 23, 1950, a proposal to rename the Upper Market Square (Obermarkt) to Leninplatz (Site of Lenin) was accepted.

Shortly after, on April 27 of the same year, the Lenin memorial plaque and the relief from the Reichenbach Tower were dismantled and came into the fund of the Municipal Art Collection.

The most diverse groups demanded, among other things, norm corrections, price reductions, new elections, freedom of belief and a wider range of goods.

A large part of the facades and roofs were repaired in order to present an attractive image of the city's architectural heritage to tourist groups.

On Republic Day, 40 years under SED rule, many private citizens had worked diligently to give the square a lively face worth seeing.

The Holy Trinity Church under Pastor Friedrich Ilgner also opened its doors and invited citizens to forums for discussion.

In November 1989, the demonstrators of the peaceful revolution marched through the Upper Market Square towards the city leaders in the Görlitz Town Hall.

Helmut Kohl is said to have inquired what this gold and white flag meant and then opened his speech with the words, "Dear Lower Silesians."

These included the Ullrich funeral home, the Gruske butcher shop and the inns Zum Nachtschmied and Café Schwibbogen.