Lübeck

Lübeck, Deutschland,¹ is located near the mouth of the Trave River near a bight of the Baltic Sea. The city has 210 thousand residents². Its tallest building is Marien Church (125 meters).³ The Hanseatic era buildings gained the city World Heritage Site status, and include the Holsentor Gate. Many of them were destroyed in World War II and rebuilt since.

External references

Lübeck's Holstentor Gate

Footnotes

1. Germany in English.
2. 2010 calculation in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/19/2011.
3. Emporis.com, accessed 2/19/2011.
4. World Heritage Sites (UNESCO and Firefly Books, 2009).