Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Lübeck, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8 km
Ascend 104 m
Descend 114 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: Begegnung

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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)

992 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Dietrich Buxtehude

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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)

396 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Adolf Bierett

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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)

1292 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 4: Sankt Bonifatius

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The church building of St. Bonifatius was in 1952 by the architect Emil Steffann in the suburb of Lübeck-St. Lorenz-Nord built as an emergency church, since the number of Catholics with the refugees of the Second World War had risen for five times.

Wikipedia: St. Bonifatius (Lübeck) (DE)

690 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: 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

1159 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 6: Schlösschen Bellevue

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Bellevue Castle is a former summer house in the Rococo style on the Trave River in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Wikipedia: Schlösschen Bellevue (DE)

1223 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: Brahms-Institut an der Musikhochschule Lübeck

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Brahms-Institut acquired the largest private collection of Johannes Brahms engravings, manuscripts and first and early prints in 1990. In addition to Brahms, the focus is on Robert and Clara Schumann, Theodor Kirchner, Joseph Joachim, and some lesser known performers and composers of the era. In addition to music manuscripts, the collection also includes correspondence, photos, and drawings.

Wikipedia: Brahms-Institut (EN), Website

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

789 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 9: ehemalige Schwedische Kirche

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The Swedish church is a former church building of the former Swedish state church from the early 20th century in the St. Gertrud district of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. It was profaned and converted into a residential building.

Wikipedia: Schwedische_Kirche_(Lübeck) (DE)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: 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)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Trägerstecksperre

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Trägerstecksperre Bundeswehr Verteidigungsbezirkskommando 47 Gießen / CC BY-SA 2.0 de

Prepared barriers are military-style devices on traffic facilities that, once triggered, are intended to slow down and channel an enemy's attack. A common form of prepared barriers are blast shafts.

Wikipedia: Vorbereitete Sperre (DE)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Der deutschen Jugend

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Karl Geiser was a Swiss sculptor.

Wikipedia: Karl Geiser (DE)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: 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)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: 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)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: 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

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