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Speicherstadt
The world's largest warehouse district built on timber-pile foundations, a UNESCO site of red-brick Neo-Gothic buildings laced with canals.
58 km · about 65 min drive
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Lübeck
Germany · Europe
About Lübeck
Lübeck sits on the route: 5 minutes from Stockelsdorf, 58km from Speicherstadt.
Lübeck is in Germany. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Stockelsdorf, about 4 km away.
Lübeck (German: [ˈlyːbɛk] ; Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek [ˈlyːbeːk]; 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 ofRead more
Schleswig-Holstein, after its capital, Kiel. It is the 36th-largest city in Germany.
The city lies in the Holsatian part of Schleswig-Holstein, at the mouth of the Trave, which flows into the Bay of Lübeck in the borough of Travemünde, and on the Trave's tributary Wakenitz. The island with the historic old town and the districts north of the Trave are also located in the historical region of Wagria. Lübeck is the southwesternmost city on the Baltic Sea, and the closest point of access to the Baltic from Hamburg. The city lies in the Holsatian dialect area of Low German.
Before 819, Polabian Slavs founded a settlement which they called Liubice at the confluence of the Schwartau and the Trave. By the 10th century, Liubice was the second-most important settlement of the Obotrites after Starigard. Lübeck was granted Soest city rights in 1160, and, in 1260, it became an immediate city within the Holy Roman Empire. In the middle of the 12th century, Lübeck developed into the cradle of the Hanseatic League, of which it was considered the de facto capital and most important city from then on. The Lübeck law was eventually adopted by around 100 cities in the Baltic region. Lübeck preserved its status as an independent city, which it had held since 1226, until 1937.
Lübeck's historic old town, located on a densely built-up island, is Germany's most extensive UNESCO World Heritage Site. With six church towers surpassing 100 metres (330 ft), Lübeck has more such towers than any other city in the world. Nicknamed the "City of the Seven Towers" (Stadt der Sieben Türme), Lübeck's skyline is dominated by the seven towers of its five main Protestant churches: St Mary's, Lübeck Cathedral, St James', St Peter's, and St Giles's. The cathedral, constructed in various stages between 1173 and 1335, was the first large brickwork church in the Baltic region. St Mary's Church, built between 1265 and 1351, is considered the model on which most of the other Brick Gothic churches in the sphere of influence of the Hanseatic League are based. It is the second-tallest church with two main towers after Cologne Cathedral (which only surpassed it in 1880), has the tallest brick vault, and is the second-tallest brickwork structure after St. Martin's Church in Landshut.
Lübeck is home to the University of Lübeck with its University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, the Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, and the Lübeck Academy of Music. There are 18 museums in Lübeck, among which are the European Hansemuseum, Lübeck Museum Port, and the Niederegger Marzipan Museum dedicated to the culinary specialty for which the city is best known, namely Lübeck Marzipan. Due to their southwestern location, Travemünde and the nearby seaside resorts of Niendorf, Timmendorfer Strand, Scharbeutz, Haffkrug, Sierksdorf, and Grömitz are among Germany's most visited seaside destinations.
Lübeck Main Station is located on the Vogelfluglinie railway line connecting continental Europe (Hamburg) to Scandinavia (Copenhagen) via the future Fehmarn Belt fixed link. The port of Lübeck is the second-largest German port on the Baltic Sea after the port of Rostock, and the Skandinavienkai in Travemünde is Germany's most important ferry port, with connections to Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. The city has its own regional airport at Lübeck-Blankensee, while nearby Hamburg Airport serves as Lübeck's main air hub.
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Within an hour or so of Lübeck: Speicherstadt (58 km), Tierpark Hagenbeck (58 km), Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg (58 km), Elbphilharmonie (59 km).
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Lübeck is in Germany, about 4 km from Stockelsdorf.
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- Population
- 0
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Timezone
- Coordinates
- 53.8689, 10.6873
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Essential numbers in Germany
ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
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Worth the detour from Lübeck
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg's famous zoo pioneering open-air enclosures without bars since 1907, with a tropical aquarium.
58 km · about 65 min drive
museum
Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg
Museum of rare prototypes and racing cars focused on Porsche and Volkswagen history in Hamburg's HafenCity.
58 km · about 65 min drive
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Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg's stunning concert hall rising like a glass wave atop a former cocoa warehouse on the Elbe, with a free public plaza offering harbour views.
59 km · about 70 min drive
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Miniatur Wunderland
The world's largest model railway exhibition in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, with over 16,000 metres of track spanning miniature continents.
59 km · about 70 min drive
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Landungsbrücken
Hamburg's bustling floating landing piers on the Elbe, the gateway to harbour cruises and the historic St. Pauli waterfront.
59 km · about 70 min drive
Driving roads near Lübeck
- 65 kmFehmarn Sound BridgeThe elegant 963 m 'coat hanger' arch bridge of 1963 carrying road and rail across the Fehmarn Sound to Germany's Baltic island of Fehmarn, a protected landmark on the Vogelfluglinie route.
Driving in Germany
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.78/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
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April to October
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