Thursday 4th May 2023
It was just a few miles from last nights stopover to todays main interest Lubeck. We parked in a car park for motorhomes and I used an app to pay that I have used a lot on this journey in most countries –
You download the easypark app and register on line, then when you are at one of their car parks you open the app click on your current position, in this case as it says at the top Parkzone 235610, you set the parking in motion, stop it when you get back and only pay for how many minutes you are there. Much easier than trying to find coins and hope you have put enough in.
Lubeck is a northern German city, it has lots of Brick Gothic architecture dating back to its time as the medieval capital of the Hanseatic Leaugue. It’s symbol is the Holstenor a red brick city gate that defended the river bounded old town. A lot of the buildings have slender spires towering above them.
The old buildings are linked by a series of small roads including pedestrianised shopping areas with modern shops. Michelle’s aim was to visit St Mary’s Gothic Cathedral the building of which commenced in1260AD. It’s vault spans the nave at a height of 126ft and the twin towers are 410 ft high. Sadly during the night of Palm Sunday in 1942 an allied bombing raid heavily damaged the cathedral destroying amongst its other contents its famous organ – Dance Macabre Organ believed to have been played by Johann Sebastian Bach.
After a three hour wander we left Lubeck and drove to tonight’s stopover at Wismar.
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