The entire city area of Lübeck was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1987.
Sources
- Zauberer der Worte – Thomas Mann (blog.dnb.de)
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/272 (whc.unesco.org)
- https://whc.unesco.org/document/153083 (whc.unesco.org)
- https://www.luebeck.de/de/rathaus/verwaltung/stadtplanung/altstadt/unesco-welterbe-luebecker-altstadt/index.html (luebeck.de)
- https://www.sh-tourismus.de/en/culture/unesco-world-heritage (sh-tourismus.de)
More in History
- The oldest securely dated Clovis points, discovered in Texas, date to approximately 13,500 years ago.
- Ferdinand Léon Delagrange died on January 4, 1910, when the wings of his Blériot monoplane folded during a steep turn.
- The 1910 special U.S. census of American Indians, overseen by Harvard anthropologist Roland Dixon, reported that mixed-blood Indians were increasing much faster than full-blood Indians and concluded that, unless conditions changed, full-blood Indians would eventually disappear altogether.
- The International Philatelic Federation was formed in 1926.
- Göbekli Tepe's stone circles range from 30 to 100 feet in diameter and are enclosed by rectangular stone walls about 6 feet high.
- Göbekli Tepe contains huge stone vessels capable of holding more than 40 gallons of liquid.