Abstract

Beginning in the fourteenth century, Lübeck was a major hub of seaborne trade in northern Europe and the capital of the Hanseatic League. A failed intervention in the Northern War of 1533-34 marked the beginning of its decline.

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1493)

Michael Wohlgemut

Source

Source: View of Lübeck. Woodcut, Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg 1493.
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Recommended Citation

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1493), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3280> [March 28, 2025].

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