Timeline of Lübeck
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Prior to 13th century
See also: Liubice
- 1138 – Town sacked.[1]
- 1143 – New town founded by Adolf II of Holstein near site of old town.[1]
- 1158 – Town ceded by Adolf II of Holstein to Duke of Saxony Henry the Lion.[2]
- 1160 – Seat of Diocese of Lübeck relocated to Lübeck from Oldenburg in Holstein.
- 1173 – Lübeck Cathedral construction begins.[3]
- 1177 – Benedictine Johanneskloster founded.[3]
- 1188 – Town charter issued by Henry the Lion.[1]
13th–15th centuries
Main article: Free City of Lübeck
- 1201 – Danes in power.[3]
- 1210 – Lübeck Cathedral construction completed (approximate date).[3]
- 1226 – Lübeck becomes an Imperial Free City.[4]
- 1250 – Petrikirche (church) built.[5]
- 1310 – Marienkirche (church) built (approximate date).[6][7]
- 1312 – Holy Ghost Hospital founded.[8]
- 1356 – St. Catherine's Church built (approximate date).
- 1368 – Hanseatic League adopts Lübeck's city seal.[1]
- 1379 – Circle Company founded.[9]
- 1408 – Uprising.[10]
- 1442 – Raathhaus built.[4]
- 1444 – Burgtor (city gate) built.
- 1450 – Merchants Company founded (approximate date).[9]
- 1462 – Hinrich Castorp becomes mayor.
- 1463 – Bernt Notke creates Dance of Death artwork for the Marienkirche.[11]
- 1474 – Printing press in use (approximate date).
- 1477
- Crucifix created by Bernt Notke erected in Lübeck Cathedral.
- Holstentor (city gate) built.[8]
- 1491 – Artist Hans Memling creates triptych for the Lübeck Cathedral.[8]
16th–18th centuries
- 1515 – St. Anne's Priory built.
- 1530 – Protestant reformation.[3]
- 1531 – Katharineum (school) opens.[12]
- 1533 – Jürgen Wullenwever becomes mayor.[12]
- 1535 – Shipowners' Guild house built.[8]
- 1586 – Outer Holstentor (city gate) built.
- 1630 – Last Hanseatic Diet meets at Lübeck.[1]
- 1668 – Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche.[13]
- 1697 – Buthman's Bierstube (tavern) in business.[14]
- 1793 – Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit (charitable society) established.
19th century
- 1801 – Town "temporarily occupied" by Danes.[1]
- 1802 – Town walls dismantled.[6]
- 1806 – 5 November: Town occupied by French forces.[3]
- 1810 – 12 November: Town becomes part of the French Empire.[4]
- 1813 – French occupation ends.
- 1825 – Navigation School founded.[12]
- 1832 – Lübecker General-Anzeiger newspaper begins publication.
- 1835 – Neue Lübeckische Blätter in publication.
- 1851 – Population: city 26,093; territory 54,166.[2]
- 1866 – Lübeck becomes part of the North German Confederation.[6]
- 1867 – Wilhelm-Theater opens.[15]
- 1868
- 1874 – Aegidien-Kirche (church) restored.[8]
- 1875 – Population: 44,799.[6]
- 1890 – Population: town 63,590; territory 76,485.[6]
- 1891 – Sacred Heart Church consecrated.
- 1893 – Museum am Dom built.
20th century
- 1900 – Elbe-Trave canal opens.[1]
- 1904 – City Theatre opens.[15]
- 1905 – Population: town 91,541; state 105,857.[3]
- 1915 – St. Anne's Museum opens.
- 1917 – Lübeck Airport constructed.
- 1919 – Ballsportverein Vorwärts Lübeck (sport club) formed.
- 1921 – Sportvereinigung Polizei Lübeck (sport club) formed.
- 1924 – Stadion an der Lohmühle (stadium) opens.
- 1942 – Bombing of Lübeck in World War II.
- 1945 – VfB Lübeck (sport club) formed.
- 1946 - Lübecker Nachrichten and Lübecker Freie Presse newspapers begin publication.[16]
- 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.
21st century
- 2000 – Bernd Saxe becomes mayor.
- 2001 – International School of New Media established.
- 2005 – Herren Tunnel opens.
- 2012 – Population: 211,713.
See also
- History of Lübeck
- List of mayors of Lübeck (in German)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Lübeck", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Lübeck". Geography. English Cyclopaedia 3. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Joseph Lins (1913). "Lübeck". Catholic Encyclopedia. NY.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 George Henry Townsend (1867), "Lübeck", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- ↑ Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck [Architecture and monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck] (in German) 2 (1). Lübeck: Bernhard Nöhring. 1906.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Lübeck". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
- ↑ Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck [Architecture and monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck] (in German) 2 (2). Lübeck: Bernhard Nöhring. 1906.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Lübeck". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1877.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eckehard Simon (1993). "Organizing and Staging Carnival Plays in Late Medieval Lübeck: A New Look at the Archival Record". Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92. JSTOR 27710764.
- ↑ Rhiman A. Rotz (1977). "The Lübeck Uprising of 1408 and the Decline of the Hanseatic League". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 121. JSTOR 986565.
- ↑ Elina Gertsman (2003). "The Dance of Death in Reval (Tallinn)". Gesta 42. JSTOR 25067083.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Max Hoffmann (1908). Chronik der Stadt Lübeck (in German). Lübcke & Nöring.
- ↑ George Grove, ed. (1879). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1. London: Macmillan.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Lübeck's Spires, a Quick Hop From Hamburg". New York Times. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Lübeck". Neuer Theater-Almanach (in German). Berlin: F.A. Günther & Sohn. 1908.
- ↑ "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Further reading
- "Lübeck". Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. 1653. p. 154+.
- Thomas Nugent (1749), "Lübeck", The Grand Tour, 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt
Published in the 19th century
- 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
- John Lalor, ed. (1883). "Lübeck". Cyclopaedia of Political Science. Chicago.
- "Lübeck", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany and Austria, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1896
- German-language
- Ernst Deecke (1881), Die freie und Hanse-Stadt Lübeck (in German) (4th ed.)
- Ernst Deecke (1891), Lübische Geschichten und Sagen (in German)
- Max Hoffmann (1889–1892). Geschichte der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck (in German).
Published in the 20th century
- Wilson King (1914), Chronicles of Three Free Cities: Hamburg Bremen, Lübeck, London: Dent
- German-language
- Lübeck [Chronicles of the German Cities]. Die Chroniken der Deutschen Städte (in German). 19, 26, 28, 30-31. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1884–1911.
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