Marktplatz Lübeck

Interessant marktplein met veel nabijgelegen bezienswaardigheden (Pranger, stadhuis, Niederegger, Mariakerk, enz.).
Op het plein worden wekelijkse marktdagen en de jaarlijkse kerstmarkt gehouden.

"Kaak wordt al sinds de 13e eeuw gebruikt om gebouwen op de Lübeck-markt te beschrijven. Tegenwoordig wordt het in Lübeck gezien als een gebouw met delen van gotische oorsprong. De Kaak, een middeleeuws hofprieel en schandpaal, werd na de oorlog in 1952 afgebroken en opgeslagen, een beetje verplaatst naar de noorden en herbouwd met behulp van oude onderdelen ". Bron: luebeck.de/tourismus/sightseeing/sehenswuerdheiten/plaetze/markt-und-kaak.html

"Earlier Count Adolf von Schauenburg recognized the favorable transport situation of the merchant settlement, which was located on an almost completely surrounded by water peninsula between Trave and Wakenitz.In 1143, he founded Lübeck and gave the settlement the city law, thus laying the foundation for the later success of the city as "Queen of the Hanseatic League." The long-distance trade was ultimately the crucial point that should lead to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck should be for about 100 years, the most important trading city in the Baltic Sea region.
The imperial freedom of 1226 gave Lübeck the possibility of a strong and independent trade policy. The law developed in the city became effective as an ordinary law in around 120 Baltic cities. With its port as "gateway to the Baltic Sea" Lübeck gained more and more importance in trade with the Baltic Sea residents. In a long process, the Hanseatic League emerged from the common commercial policy of Low German merchants. Over the centuries, more and more cities joined the Confederation: in the 15th century, around 70 cities actively participated in Hanseatic politics by visiting the Hanseatic Days, and merchants from more than 100 cities used the privileges of the Hanseatic League abroad. Lübeck, located in the middle of the Hanseatic cities, occupied a predominant position and became the "head of the Hanseatic League".
The end of the Hanseatic League began with the discovery of the sea route to India and the silver and gold reserves of America: the creation of the Atlantic economy in which the big money was made. England and Holland strengthened. Increasingly, they handled the Baltic trade with their own ships, so that the Hanseatic merchants lost importance. The Hanseatic privileges were lost and more and more cities were forced to quit under pressure from their rulers or voluntarily turned their backs on him.
The city survived the Thirty Years War and Napoleon Bonaparte. And despite all the defeats and setbacks, the city recovered and flourished again. It was not until 1937 that Lübeck lost its state independence and was integrated into the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein by the National Socialists with the "Hamburg Act".
Due to the Second World War, large parts of the old town were destroyed on Palm Sunday 1942. But Lübeck also recovered from this. "Source: luebeck.de/tourismus/sightseeing/geschichte