Lubeck Germany Cruise Port Guide

Lubeck's imposing brick buildings, testify to the prosperity the city enjoyed in the late Middle Ages as the seat of the powerful Hanseatic League. The efforts of the residents to maintain, restore and renovate these wonderful buildings have been rewarded by UNESCO, who included the Old Town of Lubeck in the list of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the World. Here in the Old Town the cultural heritage is not preserved in a museum, but is evident everywhere in the bustling life of the The main highlights, contained in the Old Town, are within close distance of each other. The imposing Town Hall stands next to the Marienkirche, Germany's third-largest church with the highest brick vault in the world. The church was almost totally burned out in a bomb attack on March 29, 1942. The bells crashed down; their remains embedded in the stone floor and have been kept there as a

memorial. In between the main streets and squares is a maze of interconnecting courts and passageways, which are wonderful to A Lubeck institution is the Cafe Niederegger. Here you can find the sweet specialty of Lubeck marzipan in a countless variety of One of the city's great sons was Thomas Mann, whose novel The Buddenbrooks is set in Lubeck. His brother Heinrich also was an esteemed writer. In 1975 Lubeck established the Thomas Mann prize, a prize of DM 15,000 (or $10,000) which is awarded every three years to persons who, by their literary works or activities, have distinguished themselves in the humanitarian spirit which marked the works of Thomas Mann.

from Lubeck excursions can easily be made into the surrounding area, the fashionable resort of Travemunde and to the City of Hamburg, a 45-minute train ride away.