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the freighter Cap San Diego
and the sailing boat Rickmer
Rickmers (1896).
E Kunsthalle
Glockengießerwall. Tel 040-428 13
12 00. Open Tue–Sun.
g Port
Baumwall or St-Pauli-Landungs-
brücken. Cap San Diego: Tel 040-36
42 09. Open daily. Rickmer Rickmers:
Tel 040-319 59 59. Open daily.
Attractive gabled houses and the statue of Roland in Bremen’s Marktplatz
fine bas-reliefs. In Marktplatz serves as a monument to the
itself stand a tall statue of tragic consequences of war.
Charlemagne’s knight Roland Nearby, the Jakobikirche (1340)
(1404) and a sculpture of the has been rebuilt in its original
Musicians of Bremen (1953), style. Inside is a massive
recalling the Grimm 17th-century Baroque
fairy tale. organ by Arp Schnitger.
Two museums of note Another fine church is the
are the Kunsthalle, with Baroque Michaeliskirche,
European art dating whose 132 m (433 ft) Lübeck’s 15th-century Holstentor, on the
from the Middle tower gives splendid western edge of the town
Ages to the 20th views of the city. z Lübeck
century, and the Hamburg’s Neo-
Focke Museum, a Renaissance town hall, * 214,000. £ n Holstentorplatz 1
museum of local history on the Rathausmarkt, (0451-889 9700). ∑ luebeck-
and decorative arts. Musicians of Bremen is the fifth in the tourism.de
sculpture city’s history. Just
P Rathaus north of it is a The most important town in the
Marktplatz. Open for guided tours large recreational lake, the Baltic basin at the end of the
only (11am, noon, 3pm, 4pm) book Binnenalster. Also nearby, the Middle Ages, Lübeck is known
ahead. n & 8 prestigious Kunsthalle traces for its wealth of superb
E Kunsthalle the history of European art medieval architecture.
Am Wall 207. Tel 0421-32 90 80. from medieval times to the 20th The city’s 13th-century
Open 10am–9pm Tue, 10am–6pm century. The section devoted Marienkirche (St. Mary’s Church)
Wed–Sun. to the 19th-century German boasts the highest vaulted brick
Romantics is especially good. nave in the world. A short walk
l Hamburg The best-known example away, the turreted Rathaus
of the city’s collection of
(Town Hall) dates from 1226 and
* 1,743,000. k g £ Expressionist buildings is Fritz is a fine example of Lübeck’s
n Hauptbahnhof, Kirchenallee Höger’s Chilehaus (1922–4) distinctive Gothic brick
(040-30 05 17 01). in Kontorhausviertel. architecture. The Gothic Dom
∑ hamburg-tourism.de Hamburg is the second (Cathedral) was begun in 1173.
largest port in Europe after Nearby, the St. Annen-Museum
For many years, Hamburg, Rotterdam, and a tour is highly has historical artifacts dating from
Germany’s second largest city, recommended. There are two the 13th to the 18th centuries.
was a leading member of the museum ships moored here: Another famous monument is
Hanseatic League and the Holstentor (1466–78), the
an independent trading western gateway to the city.
town. In 1945, it became The Buddenbrookhaus is a
a city-state of the museum devoted to the great
Federal Republic. writers Thomas and Heinrich
Hamburg sustained Mann, whose family lived here
considerable damage in 1841–91.
during World War II, and
little of the old town E Buddenbrookhaus
remains. The ruined Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum,
tower of the Neo- Triptych adorning the main altar in Mengstrasse 4. Tel 0451-122 4192.
Gothic Nikolaikirche Hamburg’s Jakobikirche Open daily. Closed Dec 24, 25 & 31. &
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