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                Lübeck’s imposing brick buildings, 
              city walls, gabled warehouses and the twin-towered Holsten Gate 
              testify to the prosperity the city enjoyed in the late Middle Ages 
              as the seat of the powerful Hanseatic League. The efforts of the 
              residents to maintain, restore and renovate these wonderful 
              buildings have been rewarded by UNESCO, who included the Old Town 
              of Lubeck in the list of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the 
              World. Here in the Old Town the cultural heritage is not preserved 
              in a museum, but is evident everywhere in the bustling life of the 
              city.  
               
              The main highlights, contained in the Old Town, are within close 
              distance of each other. The imposing Town Hall stands next to the 
              Marienkirche, Germany's third-largest church with the highest 
              brick vault in the world. The church was almost totally burned out 
              in a bomb attack on March 29, 1942. The bells crashed down; their 
              remains embedded in the stone floor and have been kept there as a 
              memorial. In between the main streets and squares is a maze of 
              interconnecting courts and passageways, which are wonderful to 
              explore. 
               
              A Lubeck institution is the Café Niederegger. Here you can find 
              the sweet specialty of Lubeck - marzipan in a countless variety of 
              forms. 
               
              One of the city's great sons was Thomas Mann, whose novel The 
              Buddenbrooks is set in Lubeck. His brother Heinrich also was an 
              esteemed writer. In 1975 Lubeck established the Thomas Mann prize, 
              a prize of DM 15,000 (or $10,000) which is awarded every three 
              years to persons who, by their literary works or activities, have 
              distinguished themselves in the humanitarian spirit which marked 
              the works of Thomas Mann.  
               
              From Lubeck excursions can easily be made into the surrounding 
              area, the fashionable resort of Travemunde and to the City of 
              Hamburg, a 45-minute train ride away.  | 
    
     
    
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