Holstein Gate in Lübeck. Germany 🇩🇪

Apart from the Brandenburg Gate, Cologne Cathedral and Munich’s Church of Our Lady, there is hardly any other German building that enjoys such worldwide popularity as Lübeck’s Holsten Gate. It is the proud symbol of Lübeck’s history as an imperial-free city and its supremacy in the world Baltic Sea region – and an epitome of all ideas about the Hanseatic League, trade, power and wealth, and therefore everything that makes up the historical significance of Lübeck. Inside, behind walls up to 3.50 meters thick, you will find the Holstentor Museum with its exhibition “The Power of “Trade”, because the importance of the medieval city was based on trade and the success of the Lübeck merchant