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18 unusual facts about Lubeck


Achaea lenzi

Saalmüller named this species after the curator of the Lübeck museum, Dr. Heinrich Lenz.

Agneta Willeken

She was pointed out as a political participator on the side of Lübeck in the propaganda of the war.

Azeta reuteri

Saalmüller named this species after Carl Reuter who collected the specimen for the Museum of Natural History of his hometown Lübeck in Loucoube, Nosy Bé, Madagascar.

Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik

(today: Glashüttenweg), sat along the eastern bank of the Trave River north of the old City of Lübeck, an island in the Trave River.

Borre, Denmark

The first historical reference to Borre is from 1510 when it was plundered by the Lübeckers from northern Germany.

Huebnerius dux

Saalmüller described this species from a couple from the collection of the museum of Lübeck.

Ivo Michiels

During World War II he was employed as a nurse in a hospital in Lübeck in Germany.

James Tocco

In addition to his itinerary, Mr. Tocco is Eminent Scholar/Artist in Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany.

Jens Andersen Beldenak

King Christian II hired him often on diplomatic missions and in 1503 he was the envoy to the peace meeting in Lübeck, where he exceeded his instructions by promising compensation to Lübeck for mobilizing ships during the war.

Lübeck-Büchen Railway Company

Among the supporters for Lübeck's proposal were such renowned figures as Alexander von Humboldt, Klemens von Metternich and the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV.

Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the designer of London's Thames Tunnel (1825–1843) also offered their services to Müller.

Consent was given three days before the beginning of the German-nationalist public song festival in Lübeck, and three months before the start of the Germanists’ day (Germanistentag) in Lübeck (27–30 September 1847), chaired by Jacob Grimm, following the first Germanists’ day meeting in the previous year in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1884, K.P.St.E opened a line to Schwarzenbek and in 1897 a line from Ratzeburg to Hagenow (the Kaiser Railway), creating two additional connections to the Berlin-Hamburg line.

Master of 1518

A group of unsigned paintings is attributed to this artist on stylistic grounds, and his name is derived from the date inscribed on the painted wings of a carved wooden altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin in St. Mary's Church in Lübeck German.

MV Discovery Sun

She was built in Lübeck, Germany in 1968 and was renovated in 1995 and then updated in 2000.

Seeteufel

The only existing experimental vessel was taken to a facility near Lübeck, and destroyed at the end of the war.

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

He was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1747 and went to Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck in 1752 as a delegate for the 'Society for Carrying on the Herring Fishery'.

Stege, Denmark

The powerful Hansa state Lübeck attacked Stege in 1510 and 1522, but the town defended itself both times.


August Nölck

August Nölck (né August Friedrich Robert Nölck; 9 January 1862 Lübeck — 12 December 1928 Dresden, Germany) was a prolific composer, virtuoso cellist, pianist, and music educator of the German School of Romanticism.

Brick Gothic

In the areas dominated by the Welfs, the use of brick to replace natural stone began with cathedrals and parish churches at Oldenburg (Holstein), Segeberg, Ratzeburg, and Lübeck.

Christian Albert

Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641–1695), duke of Holstein-Gottorp and bishop of Lübeck

Claus Berg

Born in Lübeck in the north of Germany, Berg possibly first worked as a sculptor in Veit Stoss's workshop in Nuremberg.

Confederation of Cologne

Since this peace was not enforceable the cities of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, Kulm, Thorn, Elbing, Kampen, Harderwyk, Elburg, Amsterdam and Briel signed the confederatio for war against Danmark and Norway.

Dassow

In a clockwise direction, beginning in the north, the following cities and municipalities border on Dassow: Kalkhorst, Roggenstorf, Papenhusen, Schönberg and Lübeck (Priwall, now a district within Travemünde).

DB Class V 200

Following the electrification of many main lines the V 200 was used increasingly for commuter trains and freight trains, but the Hamburg-Westerland, Hamburg-Lübeck-Copenhagen and Munich-Lindau lines still saw the V 200 hauling express trains.

Eilbek

The Bundesstraße 75 leads through the quarter, connecting the city Lübeck in the North with Delmenhorst in Lower Saxony.

Evelyn Juers

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Lübeck, Heinrich Mann was one of the leading representatives of Weimar culture.

Free City of Lübeck

In the same year Eric IV, supported by his sons Eric (later reigning as Eric V) and John (later John IV), captured the pawned lands without making the agreed repayment and before Lübeck could take possession of them.

German Renaissance

Many examples of Brick Renaissance buildings can be found in Hanseatic old towns, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Friedrichstadt and Stade.

Government of Hamburg

During World War I (1914 – 1918) the Hanseatic Cross (German: Hanseatenkreuz) was a decoration of the three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were member states of the German Empire.

Hammeren

The chapel was constructed in connection with Bornholm's herring trade with the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

Hans Blumenberg

Hans Blumenberg (born July, 13, 1920 in Lübeck; died March 28, 1996 in Altenberge) was a German philosopher.

Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath

Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.

Hep-Hep riots

The riots swept through other Bavarian towns and villages, then spread to Bamberg, Bayreuth, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Koblenz, Cologne and other cities along the Rhine, and as far north as Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck.

John VII of Hoya

John VII of Hoya (died 11 June 1535, fell in battle near Assens on Funen in Denmark) was a German count and army commander in the service of Lübeck and Sweden.

Jürgen Wattenberg

In later life he became manager of the Lübeck branch of the Bavaria – St. Pauli Brewery.

Jürgen Wullenwever

Wullenwever, who was long regarded as a popular hero in Lübeck, inspired tragedies by Heinrich Kruse and Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow, and a novel by Ludwig Köhler.

Katrin Ottarsdóttir

prize for the movie Bye Bye Bluebird at the German film festival Nordische Filmtage in Lübeck.

Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park

The Old Salt Road from Lüneburg to Lübeck runs through the nature park – at several places, such as Fredeburg, still as a medieval route - the Alte Salzstraße.

Letters of Gediminas

The second letter was written on January 25, 1323 to Lübeck, Sund, Bremen, Magdeburg, Cologne and other cities.

Liubice

Granted Wagria and Segeberg by Duke Henry the Lion in 1143, Count Adolf II of Holstein founded the new German settlement of Lübeck four kilometres from Liubice on a peninsula called Bucu at the confluence of the Wakenitz with the Trave.

Lutz Heilmann

On November 13, 2008, Heilmann pressed charges against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. at the Landgericht Lübeck, obtaining a preliminary injunction which barred the internet address www.wikipedia.de (which is controlled by Wikimedia Deutschland) from linking to de.wikipedia.org (controlled by the U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation) as long as certain information about him is included in the German Wikipedia in the article Lutz Heilmann.

MS Princesa Marissa

Originally the Finnhansa sailed on the route Helsinki (Finland) — Nynäshamn (Sweden) — Karlskrona (Sweden) — Lübeck (Germany) — Slite (Sweden) — Helsinki carrying up to 1424 passengers, but after a few years the route was simplified into Helsinki — Nynäshamn — Travemünde.

Old Salt Route

Horse-drawn carts brought the salt from Lüneburg to a crossing of the Elbe river at Artlenburg (near Lauenburg) and from there, via Mölln, to Lübeck.

Reichsadler

The Reichsadler was widely used by Imperial cities such as Lübeck, Besançon or Cheb to underline their immediacy.

Rudolf Louis

He studied in Geneva, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Klose, and continued his studies in Vienna and then Karlsruhe under Felix Mottl before becoming conductor of the theatre orchestras in Landshut and Lübeck.

Schleicher ASW 12

The exploits of Hans-Werner Grosse in an ASW 12 are legendary, e.g. the 1461 km flight of April 25, 1972 from Lübeck to Biarritz which stood for thirty years as the absolute World Free Distance Record.

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Concerts are in arrange in the cities Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg and the smaller towns of the state like Eutin or Plön, as well as in the countryside in castles, manors, old barns or little Brick Gothic village churches.

Silvia Bulfone-Paus

Bulfone-Paus is married to Ralf Paus, a professor of Experimental Dermatology and Dermatology at the University of Lübeck in Germany.

The Degenhardts

Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in Lubeck, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of Second World War culminating in the Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 by the Royal Air Force.

The Janus Man

As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.

Wolfgang Nešković

Wolfgang Nešković (born June 3, 1948 in Lübeck) is a German politician, former judge at the German Federal Court of Justice and an independent member of the German Federal Parliament, representing Cottbus – Spree-Neiße.