Schleswig-Holstein

Lübeck

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 734-735
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-24

Located on Trave & Wakenitz rivers, near Baltic Sea; was seat of Slavic principality; German city founded by count of Holstein in 12th cen.; destroyed by fire, but rebuilt by Henry the Lion in 1159;

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