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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Prior to 13th century

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• 1138 – Town sacked.
• 1143 – New town founded by Adolf II of Holstein near site of old town.
• 1158 – Town ceded by Adolf II of Holstein to Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony.
• 1160 – Seat of Catholic diocese of Lübeck relocated to Lübeck from Oldenburg in Holstein.
• 1173 – Lübeck Cathedral construction begins.
• 1177 – Benedictine St.-Johannis-Kloster (Lübeck) [de] founded.
• 1188 – Town charter issued by Henry the Lion.

13th–15th centuries

• 1201 – Danes in power.
• 1210 – Lübeck Cathedral construction completed (approximate date).
• 1226 – Lübeck becomes an Imperial Free City.
• 1250 – Petrikirche (Lübeck) [de] (church) built.
• 1310 – Marienkirche (church) built (approximate date).
• 1312 – Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Lübeck) [de] founded.
• 1356 – St. Catherine's Church built (approximate date).
• 1368 – Hanseatic League adopts Lübeck's city seal.
• 1379 – Circle Company founded.
• 1408 – Uprising.
• 1420 - Paper mill established.
• 1442 – Lübeck Town Hall [de] built.
• 1444 – Burgtor (city gate) built.
• 1450 – Merchants Company founded (approximate date).
• 1462 – Hinrich Castorp [de] becomes mayor.
• 1463 – Bernt Notke creates Dance of Death artwork for the Marienkirche.
• 1475 - Printing press in operation.
• 1477
  • Crucifix created by Bernt Notke erected in Lübeck Cathedral.
  • Holstentor (city gate) built.
• 1491 – Artist Hans Memling creates triptych for the Lübeck Cathedral.

16th–18th centuries

• 1515 – St. Anne's Priory built.
• 1530 – Protestant reformation.
• 1531 – Katharineum (school) opens.
• 1533 – Jürgen Wullenwever becomes mayor.
• 1535 – Shipowners' Guild house built.
• 1586 – Outer Holstentor (city gate) built.
• 1630 – Last Hanseatic Diet meets at Lübeck.
• 1668 – Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche.
• 1697 – Buthman's Bierstube (tavern) in business.
• 1793 – Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit (charitable society) established.

19th century

• 1801 – City "temporarily occupied" by Danes.
• 1802 – Town walls dismantled.
• 1806 – 6 November: City captured by French forces.
• 1810 – 12 November: City becomes part of the French Empire.
• 1813 – French occupation ends.
• 1815
  • Recognized as a free city by the Congress of Vienna.
  • Joins the German Confederation.
• 1825 – Navigation School founded.
• 1832 – Lübecker General-Anzeiger newspaper begins publication.
• 1835 – Lübeckische Blätter [de] (newspaper) in publication.
• 1851 – Population: town 26,093; territory 54,166.
• 1857 - Population: town 30,717; territory 49,324.
• 1866 – Joins the North German Confederation.
• 1867 – Wilhelm-Theater opens.
• 1868
  • Joins the German Customs Union.
  • Schiffergesellschaft (restaurant) in operation.
• 1871 – Joins the German Empire.
• 1874 – Aegidienkirche (Lübeck) [de] (church) restored.
• 1875 – Population: 44,799.
• 1890 – Population: town 63,590; territory 76,485.
• 1891 – Sacred Heart Church consecrated.
• 1893 – Museum am Dom (Lübeck) [de] built.
• 1900 – Elbe-Trave canal opens.

20th century

• 1904 – City Theatre opens.
• 1905 – Population: town 91,541; state 105,857.
• 1915 – St. Anne's Museum opens.
• 1917 – Lübeck Airport constructed.
• 1919
  • Lübeck joins the Weimar Republic.
  • Ballsportverein Vorwärts Lübeck (sport club) formed.
  • Population: town 113,071.
• 1921 – Sportvereinigung Polizei Lübeck (sport club) formed.
• 1924 – Stadion an der Lohmühle (stadium) opens.
• 1937 – The Greater Hamburg Act merges Lübeck into the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and it loses its status as an independent free city.
• 1940 – Oflag X-C prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers established.
• 1942 – Bombing of Lübeck in World War II.
• 1945
  • 2 May: City captured by British forces. Oflag X-C POW camp liberated.
  • VfB Lübeck sport club formed.
• 1946 - Lübecker Nachrichten and Lübecker Freie Presse newspapers begin publication.
• 1948 – Lübecker Kantorei (choir) founded.
• 1973 – Lübeck Academy of Music founded.
• 1982
  • Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets established.
  • Lübeck Cathedral reconstructed.
• 1987 – City centre becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 2000 – Bernd Saxe [de] becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2001 – International School of New Media established.
• 2005 – Herren Tunnel opens.
• 2012 – Population: 211,713.

See also

• Lübeck history
• History of Lübeck [de] (includes timeline)
• List of mayors of Lübeck [de]

References

1. ^ Pauli & Ashworth 1911.
2. ^ Knight 1866.
3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
4. ^ Lins 1913.
5. ^ Townsend 1867.
6. Hirsch 1906.
7. ^ Chambers 1901.
8. Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck [Architecture and monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck] (in German). Vol. 2. Lübeck: Bernhard Nöhring. 1906.
9. ^ Murray 1877.
10. ^ Simon 1993.
11. Rhiman A. Rotz (1977). "The Lübeck Uprising of 1408 and the Decline of the Hanseatic League". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 121 (1): 1–45. JSTOR 986565.
12. Wilhelm Sandermann (2013). "Beginn der Papierherstellung in einigen Landern". Papier: Eine spannende Kulturgeschichte (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-09193-7. (timeline)
13. Elina Gertsman (2003). "The Dance of Death in Reval (Tallinn)". Gesta. 42. JSTOR 25067083.
14. Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Germany: Lubeck". Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. hdl:2027/uc1.c3450631 – via HathiTrust.
15. ^ Hoffmann 1908.
16. George Grove, ed. (1879). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan.
17. ^ New York Times 2011.
18. Georg Friedrich Kolb (1862). "Deutschland: Lubeck". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.
19. ^ "Lübeck". Neuer Theater-Almanach (in German). Berlin: F.A. Günther & Sohn. 1908. hdl:2027/uva.x030515382.
20. "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.
21. "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 7 December 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Misplaced Pages.

Bibliography

in English

• Thomas Nugent (1749), "Lübeck", The Grand Tour, vol. 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762572
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Lübeck". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• "Lübeck", Leigh's New Descriptive Road Book of Germany, London: Leigh and Son, 1837
• Robert Baird (1842), "Lübeck", Visit to Northern Europe, New York: John S. Taylor & Co., OCLC 8052123
• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Lübeck". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 3. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064802.
• George Henry Townsend (1867), "Lübeck", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
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• John Lalor, ed. (1883). "Lübeck". Cyclopaedia of Political Science. Chicago.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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• "Lübeck's Spires, a Quick Hop From Hamburg". New York Times. 5 August 2011.

in German

• Zeiller, Martin (1653). "Lübeck". Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. p. 154+.
• Ernst Deecke (1881), Die freie und Hanse-Stadt Lübeck (in German) (4th ed.)
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• Max Hoffmann (1889–1892). Geschichte der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck (in German).
• Ernst Deecke (1891), Lübische Geschichten und Sagen (in German)
• Karl von Hegel (1891). "Lübeck". Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. hdl:2027/wu.89094689700 – via HathiTrust.
• Fritz Hirsch (1906). Die Petrikirche. Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck (Architecture and monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck) (in German). Vol. 2. Lübeck: Bernhard Nöhring.
• Max Hoffmann (1908). Chronik der Stadt Lübeck (in German). Lübcke & Nöring.
• P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Lübeck". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
• Lübeck, Deutscher Städteatlas (in German), vol. 3, Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, 1984, ISBN 3891150008
• Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Lubeck". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 1299+. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Lubeck via Wikisource
• Europeana. Items related to Lübeck, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Lübeck, various dates

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