Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Lübeck, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 5.7 km
Ascend 108 m
Descend 104 m

Explore Lübeck in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Lübeck

Sight 1: Kleverschusskreuz

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The Kleverschusskreuz is a wayside cross from the first half of the 15th century in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The limestone stone cross showed pilgrims the way to the Church of the Miracle Blood in Bad Wilsnack (Brandenburg). One mile of the way to the Church of the Miracle Blood, which was often started barefoot, gave the pilgrim a day's indulgence.

Wikipedia: Kleverschusskreuz (DE)

1281 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: Gertrudenherberge

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The Gertrudenherberge is a medieval pilgrims' hostel in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of pilgrims, the institution originally belonged to the Holy Spirit Hospital. It is one of the recently rediscovered monuments of the medieval world heritage on Lübeck's old town island, which was only recently rediscovered and thus only very late under protection.

Wikipedia: Gertrudenherberge (DE)

383 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Günter-Grass-Haus

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Günter-Grass-Haus

The Günter Grass House is a building and museum in Lübeck's Old Town dedicated to the literary, painterly and sculptural work of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, who lived near Lübeck in his old age. The museum, which opened in October 2002, is run by the Cultural Foundation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Günter-Grass-Haus (DE), Website

55 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Museumskirche Sankt Katharinen

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Museumskirche Sankt Katharinen Unbekannter Fotograf / PD-alt-100

The Katharinenkloster in Lübeck existed as the monastery of the min brothers from 1225 to the Reformation 1531.

Wikipedia: Katharinenkloster Lübeck (DE)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Overbeck-Gesellschaft - Verein von Kunstfreunden e.V.

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V. is the Kunstverein in Lübeck and a subsidiary of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities.

Wikipedia: Overbeck-Gesellschaft (DE), Website

230 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Heiligen-Geist-Hospital

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Completed in 1286, the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital am Koberg in Lübeck is one of the oldest existing social institutions in the world and one of the most important buildings in the city. It is in the tradition of the Holy Spirit Hospitals, modelled on Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome, and was run by the Brothers of the Order of the Holy Spirit.

Wikipedia: Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Lübeck) (DE), Website

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: St.-Jakobi-Kirche

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St. James' Church is one of the five main Evangelical Lutheran parish churches in Lübeck's old town, Germany.

Wikipedia: St James' Church, Lübeck (EN)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Haus Hansestadt Danzig

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Haus Hansestadt Danzig

The Hausestadt Danzig museum is located in Lübeck in the Engelsgrube in a brick building from the end of the 13th century. The museum was in 1981/1982 by the Gdansk Förderkreis e. V. set up. The museum gives an impression of the culture of Danzig and the Gdansk region until the end of the Second World War through the arrangement and design of the rooms as well as the exhibits.

Wikipedia: Museum Haus Hansestadt Danzig (DE)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Museumshafen

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Museumshafen Jan Kuchenbecker de:User:Fumaro / CC BY-SA 2.0 de

The Lübeck Museum Harbour is located on the Wenditzufer directly on the northwestern edge of Lübeck's Old Town Island, actually in the Holstenhafen between the listed swing bridge at the Engelsgrube and the Lübeck Music and Congress Hall. In winter, when the vintage cars are moored, this inner museum harbour is most frequented. In addition to many old cargo gliders typical of the Baltic Sea, a dredging vessel and a tugboat are also part of the inventory. In summer, however, due to the breakdown-prone swing bridge, many museum ships are moored on the other side and north of it, preferably in the outer museum harbour, the Hansahafen, directly in front of the Media Docks on the Wall peninsula.

Wikipedia: Museumshafen Lübeck (DE), Website

659 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Maria zum Stegel

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Maria zum Stegel unbekannter Fotograf / PD-alt-100

Maria am Stegel was a brick Gothic medieval chapel in Lübeck, Germany.

Wikipedia: Maria am Stegel (DE)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: St. Mary's Church

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St. Mary's Church Arnold Paul / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Lübeck Marienkirche is a medieval basilica in the city centre of Lübeck, Germany. Built between 1265 and 1352, the church is located on the highest point of Lübeck's old town island within the Hanseatic merchants' quarter, which extends uphill from the warehouses on the River Trave to the church. As the main parish church of the citizens and the city council of Lübeck, it was built close to the town hall and the market.

Wikipedia: St. Mary's Church, Lübeck (EN)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Kriegerdenkmal

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The war memorial of the St. Mary's parish in Lübeck was inaugurated on the Sunday of the Dead in 1929 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

Wikipedia: Ehrenmal der Sankt Marien-Gemeinde (Lübeck) (DE)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Marienwerkhaus

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The Marienwerkhaus is a building in the old town of Lübeck, Germany. It now serves as the parish hall of the Marian parish.

Wikipedia: Marienwerkhaus (DE)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Lübeck

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Lübeck, officially the Hanseatic City of 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 city in Germany.

Wikipedia: Lübeck (EN)

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Gedenkstein Befreiung 1945

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Memorial and Monuments in Lübeck is a list of panorama-free sculptures, objects, memorial and commemorative plaques in the city of Lübeck, which commemorate a specific person or event as a monument. They are arranged in chronological order of the topics listed.

Wikipedia: Erinnerungs- und Denkmale in Lübeck (DE)

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Holsten Gate

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The Holsten Gate is a city gate marking off the western boundary of the old center of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Built in 1464, the Brick Gothic construction is one of the relics of Lübeck's medieval city fortifications and one of two remaining city gates, the other being the Citadel Gate (Burgtor). Known for its two-round towers and arched entrance, it is regarded today as a symbol of the city. Together with the old city centre (Altstadt) of Lübeck it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.

Wikipedia: Holstentor (EN)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Holstentorhalle

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The Holstentorhalle is a listed former trade fair and exhibition hall of Brick Expressionism in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein). In 2007, after an extensive renovation, the hall was handed over to the Lübeck University of Music as a practice and teaching building.

Wikipedia: Holstentorhalle (DE)

854 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Alfons Aron Emmering

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The list of stumbling stones in Lübeck gives an overview of the stumbling stones laid by the artist Gunter Demnig in the city of Lübeck. This list is based on the data provided by the Initiative Stolpersteine für Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Lübeck (DE)

28 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: Brömserhof

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The Brömserhof is a small palace of the late Baroque in the Aegidienviertel of Lübeck's old town.

Wikipedia: Brömserhof (Lübeck) (DE)

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Jordan Pleskow

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Jordan Pleskow

Jordan Pleskow was a German councillor and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Jordan Pleskow (DE)

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