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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 Encore 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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