Monday: Lübeck
– Holsten Gate- Originally it was the only entrance into the city.
– Marienkirche- A Lutheran, gothic style church, construction started around 1250. The painted detail on the ceiling was beautiful. The church also held several beautiful pieces of art (you can Wikipedia it!). The Palm Sunday air raid in 1942 badly damaged the church and the bells of the church, which fell down during the ensuing blaze, still lie where they fell.
– Rathaus – City hall – famous for its unusual turrets.
– Dom zu Lübeck (Lübeck Cathedral)- Another Lutheran church- construction started in 1173 by Henry the Lion. It also suffered a lot of damage in the Pal Sunday air raid (are you sensing a theme here?). Though it is the Cathedral in Lübeck, it is not the tallest church in town (which is unusual)- Marienkirche is taller and had priority in being rebuilt after the war. There is an inscription in the church that I thought was pretty interesting: “Ye call Me Master and obey me not, Ye call Me Light and see Me not, Ye call Me Way and walk not, Ye call Me Life and desire Me not, Ye call Me wise and follow Me not, Ye call Me fair and love Me not, Ye call Me rich and ask Me not, Ye call Me eternal and seek Me not, Ye call Me gracious and trust Me not, Ye call Me noble and serve Me not, Ye call Me mighty and honor Me not, Ye call Me just and fear Me not, If I condemn you, blame me not.”
– Travemünde – Before heading back to Hamburg we drove a little farther up to the Baltic Sea cost. It is pretty much a resort town (there were lots of older, rich couples strolling around, shopping, having coffee, etc). They did have some pretty cool roofed wicker beach chairs that would come in handy for a day at the beach!
– Tower Bar- When we got back to Hamburg, we got drinks at the Tower Bar (a bar at the top of a tower attached to a Hotel that is up on a hill overlooking the harbor) and had some really tasty frozen drinks. Then we ate dinner at the Hamburg Hard Rock Café – it is right on the water. Morgan had never eaten at one and it was close to our hotel so we got to enjoy some hamburgers!
