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Lübeck
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| Hansestadt Lübeck Hanseatic City of Lübeck | |
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| Country | Germany |
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| State | Schleswig-Holstein |
| District | Urban districts of Germany |
| City subdivisions | 35 Stadtbezirke |
| Mayor | Bernd Saxe (SPD) |
| Governing party | CDU |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 214.13 km2 (82.68 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 13 m (43 ft) |
| Population | 218,523 (31 December 2015) |
| - Density | 1,021 /km2 (2,643 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | HL (1906–1937; since 1956)[1] |
| Postal codes | 23501−23570 |
| Area codes | 0451, 04502 |
| Website | www.luebeck.de |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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 Aerial view of the old town | |
| Criteria | Cultural: iv |
| Reference | 272 |
| Inscription | 1987 (11th Session) |
| Area | 81.1 ha |
| Buffer zone | 693.8 ha |
Lübeck (Low German: Lübęk, Lübeek; adjective: lübsch, lübisch, at the latest since the 19th century also Lübeck, Latin: Lubeca) is a city in the North of Germany, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It has about 210,000 inhabitants and a university.
The city's full name is Hansestadt Lübeck (Hanseatic city of Lubeck) in memory of its history. It was an important part in the Hanseatic League. The architecture of the city and the region as well is influenced by this historic period. As the Free City of Lübeck, the city was a state of the Weimar Republic. Other Hanseatic cities today are: Hamburg, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Bremen, Greifswald and Demmin.
The most famous citizen is the author Günter Grass. He won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Luebeck has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
References
- ↑ Vehicles registered between 1937 and 1956 were given prefixes valid for all of Schleswig-Holstein: "I P" (1937–1945), "S" (1945–1947), "SH" (1947 only), "BS" (1948–1956).
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