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Lübeck: Queen of the Hanseatic League

Harmony within, peace without – thirteen stories from the leaning Holsten Gate to the long table of the Skippers' Guild

14 stops 90 min 3.1 km

At a glance

Distance
3.1 km
Duration
90 min
Stops
14
Languages
Deutsch, English
Finish
First fight, then sign
An audio walk across Lübeck's old town island, eight hundred years after the emperor's charter of freedom: from the Holsten Gate, saved by a single vote, past the Salt Warehouses, St Peter's and the Town Hall where the Hanseatic Diets met, to the devil at St Mary's and the bells that have lain where they fell since 1942. On to the Buddenbrook House, the Willy Brandt House, the Füchting Courtyard, the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, the Pamir chapel in St James's and the Castle Gate. Discover how merchants without a king ruled the Baltic, why the devil got a tavern, and which rule honest Lübeck merchants still live by. Finale at the long table of the Skippers' Guild House. With scenes from Lübeck legends and up-to-date 2026 information.
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  • 4 devices included — for you and your companions
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Route

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Start: Holstentorplatz, Lübeck (bus stop Holstentorplatz, about ten minutes' walk from the main station), on the outer side of the Holsten Gate

  1. 1

    Eight hundred years of freedomfree

    Concordia domi foris pax – the motto of a city without princes, free for eight hundred years.

  2. 2

    Saved by a single votefree

    A leaning gate, saved by a single vote.

  3. 3

    White gold full version

    White gold and herring: the Hanseatic business model.

  4. 4

    Free forever full version

    Free forever – and why forever lasted seven hundred and eleven years.

  5. 5

    A queen without a crown full version

    A queen without a crown, a door for the convicted and marzipan across the street.

  6. 6

    A tavern for the devil full version

    The devil lends a hand – and gets a tavern for it.

  7. 7

    The bells stay where they fell full version

    Bells left lying where they fell.

  8. 8

    Sleeping soundly at night full version

    A novel that offended a city, and a rule for sleeping soundly.

  9. 9

    A fishing boat heading north full version

    A fishing boat heading north and a Nobel Peace Prize.

  10. 10

    For the use and benefit of the poor full version

    A will that has been carried out for almost four hundred years.

  11. 11

    A warm bath, eight times a year full version

    Four square metres of privacy and a bath eight times a year.

  12. 12

    The boat in the chapel full version

    A lifeboat in the sailors' church.

  13. 13

    First fight, then sign full version

    First fight, then sign: how the Hanse made peace.

  14. 14

    The long table full version

    The long table where captain and deckhand sat side by side.

Narrated by a synthetic (AI) voice — script and facts by the tripto.de editorial team.

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Can I listen offline?

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Can two of us listen?

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How long do I have access?

12 months from the first time you open it. Stop whenever you like and continue another day — the guide remembers where you left off.

Lübeck: Queen of the Hanseatic League

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