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Project: Germany - Lubeck.
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Germany - Lubeck: Market Square - Lubeck's "parlour" with the Marienkirche and the Rathaus - town hall.
The Market Square of Lübeck is very nice. It’s surrounded by nice buildings. And a church, the Maria church. The whole block is probably very old. Lübeck was the very center of the Hanseatic League, 700 or so years ago. This organisation was a very strong power, ruling the better part of the Baltic sea. Probably many a thing took place at this very square. Markets for sure. Maybe executions.
www.traveljournals.net/stories/2087.html
The Hanseatic League (also: the Hansa) was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea, to a certain extent the North Sea, and most of Northern Europe for a time in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries.
For more information see:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
The Radhaus - (Local Name: Rathaus) In the Markt, in the center of Lübeck's old town, stands the Town Hall, one of the most magnificent in Germany, built in the 13th-15th centuries in dark glazed brick, with a Renaissance addition of 1570 fronting the building.
The Dom.
Many of Germany’s historical city centers were bombed during World War II, and Lübeck was no exception. The Romanesque and Gothic Dom, for instance, Lübeck’s cathedral, was severely damaged. The Dom was begun in 1173, was taken over by the Protestants during the Reformation and re-emerged after World War II with the magnificent Triumphal Cross (1477) by Bernt Notke still intact. It hangs high over the pews, a reminder of the church’s Catholic past.
www.travel-wise.com/europe/western-europe/germany/lubeck....
Project: Germany - Lubeck.
Nos. 2 of 5
Germany - Lubeck: Market Square - Lubeck's "parlour" with the Marienkirche and the Rathaus - town hall.
The Market Square of Lübeck is very nice. It’s surrounded by nice buildings. And a church, the Maria church. The whole block is probably very old. Lübeck was the very center of the Hanseatic League, 700 or so years ago. This organisation was a very strong power, ruling the better part of the Baltic sea. Probably many a thing took place at this very square. Markets for sure. Maybe executions.
www.traveljournals.net/stories/2087.html
The Hanseatic League (also: the Hansa) was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea, to a certain extent the North Sea, and most of Northern Europe for a time in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries.
For more information see:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
The Radhaus - (Local Name: Rathaus) In the Markt, in the center of Lübeck's old town, stands the Town Hall, one of the most magnificent in Germany, built in the 13th-15th centuries in dark glazed brick, with a Renaissance addition of 1570 fronting the building.
The Dom.
Many of Germany’s historical city centers were bombed during World War II, and Lübeck was no exception. The Romanesque and Gothic Dom, for instance, Lübeck’s cathedral, was severely damaged. The Dom was begun in 1173, was taken over by the Protestants during the Reformation and re-emerged after World War II with the magnificent Triumphal Cross (1477) by Bernt Notke still intact. It hangs high over the pews, a reminder of the church’s Catholic past.
www.travel-wise.com/europe/western-europe/germany/lubeck....