Lübeck

Germany

Lübeck is a Baltic port in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. Granted city rights in 1160, it developed in the 12th and 13th centuries into the leading city of the Hanseatic League, the trading network of medieval northern Europe, and its brick Gothic old town, with the cathedral begun in 1173 and St Mary's Church, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its main churches have been Protestant since the Reformation, and the Pietist leader August Hermann Francke was born in the city in 1663. Jewish families, many of them refugees from Poland, settled in neighbouring Moisling from the mid-17th century, and a community later established itself in Lübeck proper after emancipation in the 19th century.

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