Ahrensburg, a town in Schleswig-Holstein, is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, situated in Stormarn. Its population around 31,700 (2009). Its outstanding sight is the Renaissance castle dating from 1595. Other sights are the adjacent castle church with its "Gottesbuden" Almshouses.
The town dates back to the 13th Century, when the Counts of Schauenburg founded the village of Woldenhorn. On the 7 June 1867 the estate village Woldenhorn became an independent Prussian country community and renamed itself Ahrensburg. It became a city in 1949.
Ann with Ewan and Kirsche
The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League ("Queen of the Hanse") and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Willy Brandt (who was German Chancellor) was born here.
The old part of the town is an island enclosed by the Trave. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe River. Another important river near the town centre is the Wakenitz.
In 1937 the Nazis passed the so-called Greater Hamburg Act, where the nearby Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was expanded, to encompass towns that had formally belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein. To compensate Prussia for these losses the 711-year-long independence of Lübeck came to an end and almost all its territory was incorporated into Schleswig-Holstein.
Much of the old town has kept a medieval look with old buildings and narrow streets. The town once could only be entered by passing one of four town gates, of which two remain today, the well-known Holstentor (1478) and the Burgtor (1444).
The old town centre is dominated by seven church steeples. The oldest ones are the Lübecker Dom (the city's cathedral) and the Marienkirche (Saint Mary's), both from the 13th and 14th centuries.
The bell which was destroyed by British bombs in World War II
This shows the positions of the moon over time and hence dates for Easter for the next 50-60 years
Novelist Thomas Mann's house
The world famous marzipan shop
Lübeck is very famous for its marzipan industry, and according to local legend, marzipan was first made in Lübeck possibly in response to either a military siege of the city, or a famine year. The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that the town ran out of all foods except stored almonds and sugar, and used these to make loaves of marzipan "bread". Others believe that marzipan was actually invented in Persia a few hundred years before Lübeck claims to have invented it. The best known producer is Niederegger
Then on to Travemunde on the Baltic coast.
Travemünde is a borough of Lübeck at the mouth of the river Trave in Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Danes subsequently strengthened it. It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lübeck, to which it has since belonged. Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.
Travemünde has been a seaside resort since 1802, and is Germany's largest ferry port on the Baltic Sea with connections to Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia and Estonia. The lighthouse is the oldest on the German Baltic coast, dating from 1539.
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