Lübeck, Germany
17th and 18th July, 2023
Spending two days wandering around Lubeck.
Lübeck’s historic Old Town area is surrounded by water, built on a densely built up island and is Germany’s most extensive UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Marzipan
Why marzipan?..well Lubeck is famous for their Niederegger marzipan. So we thought we’d see what the fuss was about, so we visited. OMG!! 4 floors of marzipan, first floor is the shop, second is the cafe, third is the marzipan museum. The cafe was packed with people and easy to see why, they have an incredible list of different marzipan, chocolates, nougat and …arr cakes, danish, etc. Their shelf and window displays were indeed artwork. I have a mate back home that would need second tummy for this shop.
They had a marzipan 3d printer setup, that was making little things.
Anyone for marzipan veggie?
The museum has life size people, 3 foot high eggs, etc, etc all made out of marzipan.
How about a lobster
It’s the Devil you know
Or is it the devil you don’t know!!!!
Museum Holstentor. (The medieval gates)
The gates contain a museum, but after the volume of really great museums we’ve visited, we gave this a pass and enjoyed the lanes and square instead.
Brick Gothic Architecture
Lubeck is full of great buildings. Below is partial view of the facade of the Town Hall.
St. Mary’s Church
Besides it’s impressive gothic architecture, stained glass windows featuring the dance of death and it has an astronomical clock, and a chapel with the bells that collapsed in 1942.
It was built between 1280 to 1320 and positioned in the centre of town next to the Town Hall and the central market square.
The collapsed bells
St Peter’s Church
Built between 1227 and 1250, it is not longer a consecrated church, but now a centre for events and exhibits. But it has a great observation platform with panoramic views over Old Town area of Lübeck.
St. Mary’s Church dominates the view.
18th July, 2023
Lübeck Cathedral
Lübeck Cathedral completely burned down and the vaults collapsed during the air raids on Lube k in 1942. Today it has been completely restored and it houses numerous works of art such as the 17- metre Triumphal Cross by Bernt Notre, the pulpit and the imposing Lettner clock.
Town Hall
Lubeck’s Town Hall is at the centre of the Old Town and is one of the most famous Gothic brickwork structures. With its impressive facade, it resembles a fairytale castle.
The tour inside was only done in German.
Note the two different door heights. You entered into the room on the right side standing tall. And you were to bow and back out the door as you left the room through the lower left side doorway.
The view from inside the Town Hall looking out on the the market square.
Open, impressive caerved and painted display of Lübeck’s history.
Closed - inlaid wooden mosaic.
Wandering about the Old town
There’s always time to stop for a coffee or hot chocolate and sample the Niederegger famous marzipan, “Nusstorte”. Translates as Nut Torte. Every country has its own coffee culture and the most important thing you need to do when arriving in a new country is to find out how to order your coffee to suit your taste. Norway, Sweden and Denmark, if you want milk in your coffee you ordered a Cafe Latte. In Germany you have to order a Latte Macchiato.
Lots of great old buildings to appreciate.
