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| Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein |
| Lubeck, on the Trave River, is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany. The old part of the town is an island enclosed by the Trave river. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe river. When I was stationed at Kiel in 1957, my friend Alan Smith from Sunderland and I hitch-hiked there and spent a day looking round what is a beautiful city. We treated ourselves to a nice meal and then found we didn't have enough money for the train-fare back to Kiel, so we tried to hitch a ride - unsuccessfully. We walked for many miles in the middle of the night and eventually found a kind cafe proprietor in Eutin who let us sit in his cafe until about 4am, after which we slept on the railway station and then caught the train to Kiel from there - we just got back in time to avoid being put on a charge ! |
| A view of part of the old town. |
| Lubeck and the Trave. |
| A super postcard of Lubeck Harbour. |
| No date for this old postcard of Lubeck Station. |
| The Burgtor. |
| A 1908 postcard of the Stadttheater. |
| Another view of the Stadttheater in Lubeck. |
| Search the internet and see what you can discover about Lubeck and Northern Germany. |
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| Did You Know..........that the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann were born in Lubeck, Heinrich in 1871 and Thomas in 1875 ? Heinrich was a novelist who had to leave Germany in the 1930s because of his literary attacks on the Nazi Party. Thomas, also a novelist, was a Nobel Prize winner. He too fled Germany in the 30s. |
| Did You Know..........that Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin (1957 - 1966) and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969 - 1974), was born in Lubeck in 1913. He won the Noble Peace Prize in 1971. |
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