Lübeck - Hanseatic Seaport With World-Class Culture
In 1143, Count Adolf II von Schauenburg founded the city of Lübeck as "heir" to the old Slavic principality downstream. Through the course of its history, the Free Imperial City was once the largest and most powerful city on the Baltic Sea and widely referred to the "Queen of the Hanseatic League" a major trading centre.
Important artists, writers and politicians were born here - the Nazarene painter Friedrich Overbeck, the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann and chancellor Willy Brandt. Even the great Johann Sebastian Bach worked for several months in Lübeck.
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