Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Lübeck, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 6 km
Ascend 108 m
Descend 108 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: Ende des Kreuzweges

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The Lübeck Way of the Cross is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany and has been walked again since 1994. Of the seven stations of the 1650-metre-long path, which were created towards the end of the 15th century, only the first and last, the beginning and end of the Stations of the Cross have been preserved.

Wikipedia: Lübecker Kreuzweg (DE)

817 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: St.-Gertrud-Kirche

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St.-Gertrud-Kirche

The St. Gertrud Church in Lübeck is the parish church of the Protestant parish in the Lübeck district of St. Gertrud, built according to a design by the Charlottenburg architects Jürgensen & Bachmann, which is dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. The patronage has been historical for the suburb on the castle field in front of the castle gate since the Middle Ages. In 1373, the Bishop of Lübeck, Burkhard von Serkem, consecrated the first St. Gertrude Chapel.

Wikipedia: St. Gertrudkirche (Lübeck) (DE)

488 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

800 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 4: Der deutschen Jugend

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Karl Geiser was a Swiss sculptor.

Wikipedia: Karl Geiser (DE)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: KZ Fürstengrube-Todesmarsch

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The Fürstengrube Death March was a death march of concentration camp prisoners during the evacuation of the Fürstengrube concentration camp and other concentration camp prisoners. Lack of food, disease, exhaustion, mistreatment and murder claimed numerous victims on this death march from January to May 1945 with several stopovers.

Wikipedia: KZ Fürstengrube-Todesmarsch (DE)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Schuppen 10

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Schuppen 10/11 are two listed former harbour sheds in the port and Hanseatic city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein).

Wikipedia: Schuppen 10/11 (DE)

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Burgtorlöwe

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Sculptures and Objects in Lübeck lists panorama-free sculptures and objects in the city of Lübeck that do not commemorate a specific person or event as a monument. Since they are often nameless, they are assigned here to the artists listed alphabetically. Insofar as a monument is associated with a specific person or a historical event, it should be entered in the list of memorials and monuments in Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Skulpturen und Objekte in Lübeck (DE)

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Europäisches Hansemuseum

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Europäisches HansemuseumBS Hochschulstadtteil (Diskussion) 20:27, 11. Jun. 2015 (CEST) / CC BY 4.0

The European Hansemuseum is a museum in Lübeck, Germany dedicated to the history of the Hanseatic League. Covering an area of in total 7,405 square metres (79,710 sq ft), is the largest museum in the world specifically dedicated to this subject. The museum was opened in May 2015.

Wikipedia: European Hansemuseum (EN), Website

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Burgtor

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The Burgtor, built 1444 in late Gothic style, was the northern city gate of Hanseatic Lübeck, now in Germany. It is one of two towered gates remaining from the medieval fortifications, the other being the more famous Holstentor.

Wikipedia: Burgtor (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Carl Hans Lody

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Carl Hans Lody

Carl Hans Lody, alias Charles A. Inglis, was a reserve officer of the Imperial German Navy who spied in the United Kingdom in the first few months of the First World War.

Wikipedia: Carl Hans Lody (EN)

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Ida-Boy-Ed-Garten

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Ida-Boy-Ed-Garten © OpenStreetMap-Mitwirkende (Karte); Der Bischof mit der E-Gitarre (Nachbearbeitung) / CC-by-sa 3.0

The Ida-Boy-Ed garden is a street of the old town of Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Ida-Boy-Ed-Garten (DE)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: 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

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Geibel-Denkmal

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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)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: 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)

543 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Stadttheater

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The Theater Lübeck is one of the largest theaters in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is managed by Theater Lübeck GmbH, a state-owned company of the Hansestadt Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Theater Lübeck (EN), Website

357 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: 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 18: 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

733 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 19: St.-Matthäi-Kirche

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St. Matthäi is a monument-protected neo-Gothic church building in Lübeck-St. Lorenz-Nord and a church service center of the same name in the church circle of Lübeck-Lauenburg, the North Elbian church.

Wikipedia: St. Matthäi (Lübeck) (DE), Website

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Bernhard Isaak

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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)

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