Lübeck

American  

[ly-bek] / ˈlü bɛk /

noun

1. a seaport in N Germany: important Baltic port in the medieval Hanseatic League.

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Lübeck British  

/ ˈlyːbɛk /

noun

1. a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic: the leading member of the Hanseatic League, and a major European commercial centre until the 15th century. Pop: 212 754 (2003 est)

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Lübeck

Although it was first spotted early last month, it was on 23 March that it first became stranded on Timmendorfer Beach in Lübeck Bay.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Mann was born to a prominent mercantile family in Lübeck in 1875, just a few years after the various independent German states unified into a single nation.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021

In Lübeck, Germany, Rolf Hilgenfeld stopped packing boxes for his retirement and started preparing buffers for crystallography.

From Nature ● May 14, 2020

The animals had made their way across the Atlantic with Ms. Reinhart and her husband when they moved earlier this year from Pennsylvania to Lübeck, Germany, for work.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019

Three of these still exist as republican members of the present German federation; namely, the Hanseatic towns,—Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson

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