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Lübeck (German: ⓘ; Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek [ˈlyːbeːk]; [2] Latin: Lubeca), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (German: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and the second-largest city in the state of Schleswig-Holstein , after its capital of Kiel , and is the 36th-largest ...
Hansestadt Lübeck (“Hanseatic City of Lübeck”) Lübeck, city and major seaport, Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), northern Germany. It is located on the Trave and Wakenitz rivers, about 9 miles (14 km) from the Baltic Sea. In the Middle Ages it was one of the main commercial centres of northern Europe and the chief city of the Hanseatic ...
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- Altstadt
- Holstentor
- St Mary’s Church
- Town Hall
- Hospital of The Holy Spirit
- European Hansemuseum
- Lübeck Cathedral
- Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets
- Willy-Brandt-Haus
- St Peter’s Church
Germany’s largest historic centre is 100 hectares of historic streets under the watch of those seven spires. A classic Lübeck street scene has would be rows of Renaissance gabled houses broken by passageways. The city is designed in a way that rewards anyone who with spirit for adventure. You can turn off the main streets and follow these alleys to...
More than just a building, Holstentor, guarding the western entrance to the Old Town is a landmark known all over Germany. Started in 1464, the gate has Lübeck’s signature North German Brick Gothic design. There are two rounded towers flanking the passageway and smaller ornamental towers on the pediment. You can see how subsidence has brought the s...
Like the Holstentor, you can’t overstate the significance of St Mary’s Church. Dating to the 13th and 14th centuries, its Brick Gothic design would be replicate at dozens of churches around the Baltic in the Middle Ages. In the style of Germany’s medieval Hall Churches, the building doesn’t have a transept. The nave is exceptionally high, and at 38...
Among Germany’s largest medieval town halls and another photogenic landmark in Lübeck, the town hall was first mentioned in 1225. It started out as a Romanesque building and you can still spot a Romanesque blind arch in the shield wall. But the first town hall was destroyed by fire in the middle of the 13th century, and the pointed arcades on Markt...
At Koberg square in the Altstadt’s northern Jakobi Quarter, the Hospital of the Holy Spirit is one of the oldest social institutions in the world. Founded in 1286 and secularised after the Reformation, the hospital is a sign of Medieval Lübeck’s social conscience, taking care of its poor, elderly and sick residents, provided they lived a near-monas...
The capital of the Hanseatic League is the logical place for a museum about this international confederation of market towns and merchant guilds. The Hansemuseum maps the birth, rise and fall of the Hanseatic League across more than half a millennium. There are thorough outlines of the trade networks, and reconstructions of port scenes at cities as...
Built by Henry the Lion after Lübeck had become an episcopal “see” in the 12th century, Lübeck Cathedral is one of the oldest monuments in the city. It was severely damaged in 1942 and the restored building wouldn’t be re-consecrated until 1973. As a break from Medieval norms, the cathedral isn’t the tallest church in the city, and this is down to ...
In a lovely set of five Medieval brick buildings, the Theatre Puppet museum has 300 years worth of puppets and puppeteering props gathered from Europe, Africa and Asia. These are a private collection, assembled by Fritz Fey, one of a long line of puppeteers, and they reveal one of the uniting themes of the art-form, which is to be a reflection of t...
A Nobel prize-winner and One of Germany’s most beloved statesmen, former Chancellor Willy Brandt was born in Lübeck in 1913. The museum opened in 2007 on what would have been his 94th birthday, and the property chosen was a cultivated Burgher house that needed restoration. From his youth Brandt lived a life out of the ordinary, and this is retold b...
The Romanesque St Peter’s Church was first mentioned in 1170 but was a ruin for the second half of the 20th century and was only restored in 1987. This church no longer has services and instead is an exhibition and function space. If you’re in Lübeck at Christmas, call in at the arts and crafts market. The rest of the time the main objective has to...
Queen of the Hanseatic League. Welcome to Lübeck. Joyful, lively, serene - that's Lübeck's heartbeat, which pulsates through the winding streets of the Old Town island and fills the impressive brick architecture with life. Our Nordic beauty, with all the charm of the original port city, welcomes you openly with its motto "Concordia domi foris ...
European Hansemuseum. 524. Speciality Museums. Interactive museum with in-depth exhibits on the Hanseatic League, featuring engaging technology and informative displays. Includes a shop, cafe, and castle access. 2024. 7. Marienkirche.
NORDIC BEAUTY WITH STYLE. Lübeck’s Old Town is completely surrounded by water and has all the maritime charm to go with it. The impressive brick architecture of the merchants' houses and churches is still the hallmark of this Hanseatic town, which was founded in 1143 as the first port on the Baltic Sea and has been a UNESCO World Heritage ...
By OlegMal. 19,028. Lubeck, Germany. With its Gothic castle, ornate Renaissance buildings, and rows of gabled houses, strolling around Lubeck’s UNESCO-listed old town feels like stepping into a fairy tale. Architectural gems, winding passageways, and café-lined courtyards each reveal a new surprise about this charming city.
