Germany
Schleswig-Holstein
East Holstein

Lübeck

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the largest port on the Baltic Sea and the second-largest city in , situated at the mouth of the river Trave.
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  • Type: City with 213,000 residents
  • Description: city in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany
  • Also known as: “Hanseatic City of Lübeck”, “Kreisfreie Stadt Lübeck”, “Lubeck”, “Lübeck Hansestadt”, “Luebeck”, and “Lybeck”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holstentor and Saint Mary’s Church.

Photo: gds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Holsten Gate is a 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.

Church
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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 to the church.

Church
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Lübeck is a large brick-built Lutheran in Lübeck, Germany, and part of the Lübeck World Heritage Site. It was started in 1173 by Henry the Lion as a for the Bishop of Lübeck.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stockelsdorf and Moisling.

Town
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is a municipality in the district of , in , . It is situated directly northwest of Lübeck and forms an agglomeration with the easterly town of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Village
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is a village.

Lübeck

Latitude
53.8664° or 53° 51′ 59″ north
Longitude
10.6847° or 10° 41′ 5″ east
Population
213,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
LBC
United Nations Location Code
DE LBC
Open location code
9F5GVM8M+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25327151
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­unesco world heritage
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2875601
Wiki­data ID
Q2843
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lübeck” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lübeck”
  • Albanian: “Lybeku”
  • Arabic: “لوبك”
  • Arabic: “لوبيك”
  • Aragonese: “Lübeck”
  • Armenian: “Լյուբեկ”
  • Arpitan: “Lübeck”
  • Asturian: “Lübeck”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lübek”
  • Balinese: “Lübeck”
  • Basque: “Lübeck”
  • Bavarian: “Lübeck”
  • Belarusian: “Любек”
  • Belarusian: “Любэк”
  • Bengali: “লুবেক”
  • Bosnian: “Lübeck”
  • Breton: “Lübeck”
  • Bulgarian: “Любек”
  • Burmese: “လွီးဘက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lübeck”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Lübeck”
  • Cebuano: “Lübeck (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Lübeck”
  • Chechen: “Луьбек”
  • Chinese: “Lübeck”
  • Chinese: “卢卑克”
  • Chinese: “吕贝克”
  • Chinese: “呂北克”
  • Chinese: “呂碧克”
  • Chinese: “呂貝克”
  • Chinese: “律百克”
  • Chuvash: “Любек”
  • Corsican: “Lubecca”
  • Croatian: “Lübeck”
  • Czech: “Lübeck”
  • Czech: “Lubek”
  • Danish: “Lübeck”
  • Danish: “Lybæk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lübeck”
  • Dutch: “Lubeck”
  • Dutch: “Lübeck”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوبيك”
  • Esperanto: “Lubeko”
  • Estonian: “Lübeck”
  • Extremaduran: “Lübeck”
  • Finnish: “Lubeck”
  • Finnish: “Lübeck”
  • Finnish: “Lybeck”
  • Finnish: “Lyypekki”
  • French: “Lübeck”
  • Friulian: “Lübeck”
  • Galician: “Lübeck”
  • Georgian: “ლიუბეკი”
  • German: “Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck”
  • German: “Hansestadt Lübeck”
  • German: “Lübeck”
  • Greek: “Λίμπεκ”
  • Greek: “Λούμπεκ”
  • Greek: “Λυβέκη”
  • Greek: “Λυβέκκη”
  • Greek: “Λύμπεκ”
  • Gujarati: “લ્યુબેક”
  • Hausa: “Lübeck”
  • Hebrew: “ליבק”
  • Hindi: “ल्यूबेक”
  • Hungarian: “Hansaváros Lübeck”
  • Hungarian: “Lübeck”
  • Icelandic: “Lübeck”
  • Ido: “Lübeck”
  • Inari Sami: “Lübeck”
  • Indonesian: “Lübeck”
  • Interlingua: “Lübeck”
  • Interlingue: “Lübeck”
  • Irish: “Lübeck”
  • Italian: “Lubecca”
  • Japanese: “ハンザの女王”
  • Japanese: “ハンザ都市リューベック”
  • Japanese: “リューベック”
  • Javanese: “Lübeck”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯೂಬೆಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Lëbëkô”
  • Kashubian: “Lübeck”
  • Kashubian: “Lubeka”
  • Kazakh: “Любек”
  • Kirghiz: “Любек”
  • Kongo: “Lübeck”
  • Korean: “뤼베크”
  • Kurdish: “Lübeck”
  • Ladin: “Lübeck”
  • Latin: “Lubeca”
  • Latvian: “Lībeka”
  • Ligurian: “Lübeck”
  • Limburgan: “Lübeck”
  • Lithuanian: “Liubekas”
  • Lombard: “Lübeca”
  • Low German: “Lübeck”
  • Low German: “Lubeek”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Lübeck”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lübeck”
  • Macedonian: “Либек”
  • Malagasy: “Lübeck”
  • Malay: “Lubeck”
  • Malay: “Lübeck”
  • Maltese: “Lübeck”
  • Marathi: “ल्युबेक”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lübeck”
  • Minangkabau: “Lübeck”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიუბეკი”
  • Moksha: “Любэк”
  • Narom: “Lübeck”
  • Neapolitan: “Lübeck”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lübeck”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lübeck”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lübeck”
  • Norwegian: “Lübeck”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lübeck”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܘܒܩ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lȳbric”
  • Ossetian: “Любек”
  • Persian: “لوبک”
  • Picard: “Lübeck”
  • Piemontese: “Lubëcca”
  • Polish: “Lübeck”
  • Polish: “Lubeka”
  • Portuguese: “Lübeck”
  • Romanian: “Lübeck”
  • Romansh: “Lübeck”
  • Russian: “Любек”
  • Sardinian: “Lübeck”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lübeck”
  • Scots: “Lübeck”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lübeck”
  • Serbian: “Lübeck”
  • Serbian: “Либек”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lübeck”
  • Sicilian: “Lübeck”
  • Silesian: “Lübeck”
  • Sinhala: “ලූබෙක්”
  • Slovak: “Lübeck”
  • Slovenian: “Lübeck”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوبک”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad hanseática de Lübeck”
  • Spanish: “Lubeca”
  • Spanish: “Lubeck”
  • Spanish: “Lübeck”
  • Spanish: “Reina de la Hansa”
  • Swahili: “Lübeck”
  • Swedish: “Lubeck”
  • Swedish: “Lübeck”
  • Swedish: “Lybeck”
  • Swiss German: “Lübeck”
  • Tajik: “Любек”
  • Tamil: “லுபெக்”
  • Tatar: “Лүбек”
  • Telugu: “ల్యూబెక్”
  • Thai: “ลือเบค”
  • Thai: “ลือเบ็ค”
  • Tumbuka: “Lübeck”
  • Turkish: “Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck”
  • Turkish: “Hansestadt Lübeck”
  • Turkish: “Lübeck”
  • Twi: “Lübeck”
  • Ukrainian: “Любек”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lübeck”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lubica”
  • Urdu: “لوبک”
  • Urdu: “لوبیک”
  • Uzbek: “Lübeck”
  • Venetian: “Lubeca”
  • Vietnamese: “Lubeck”
  • Vietnamese: “Lübeck”
  • Vlaams: “Lübeck”
  • Volapük: “Lübeck”
  • Walloon: “Lübeck”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lübeck”
  • Welsh: “Lübeck”
  • Western Frisian: “Lübeck”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوبک”
  • Wolof: “Lübeck”
  • Wu Chinese: “吕贝克”
  • Yue Chinese: “呂碧克”
  • Zeeuws: “Lübeck”
  • Zulu: “Lübeck”
  • “Lübeck”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lübeck”. Photo: Dr. Chriss, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.