Brick Towers, Fallen Bells and Sinners Self Guided Tour of Lübeck
Description
Lübeck's most famous gate was saved from demolition by a single vote: 42 to 41. This self-guided audio tour takes you past that tilting gate, through streets called Purgatory and Hell, to the church where merchants built their vault twenty metres taller than the bishop's cathedral, just to prove a point. Along the way, you'll hear how the salt warehouses became a vampire's lair in Nosferatu, why Bach walked four hundred kilometres to hear one organist, and how a medieval courtroom used two different doors so the crowd outside could read the verdict without a word being spoken. The tour works entirely offline across this UNESCO World Heritage island, with no fixed start time. Pause for marzipan at Niederegger, resume whenever you like. Over 20,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours, and every booking includes a full refund guarantee. If you want real stories, not just a photo walk, this Lübeck walking tour is the one to book.
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Itinerary
Stand before the tilting gate that survived demolition by a single vote, 42 to 41.
Spot the warehouses where a vampire's shadow still appears in the windows every evening at dusk.
Pause on the bridge and trace the outline of a medieval island that was never breached by force.
Look up at the towers the merchants set out to humiliate, then find the hidden signature inside a hollow finger.
Walk a medieval route from Purgatory through Hell to Paradise, and search for the devil's plaque along the way.
Notice the half tower deliberately built without a back wall to trap anyone who climbed inside.
Step into a church stripped bare after the war, where a neon sign now winks at confused visitors.
Taste the marzipan that earned EU protection, then identify the life-sized figures sculpted from it upstairs.
Count the two courtroom doors and work out which one meant you walked free.
Meet the devil who helped build a church he thought was a wine bar, then find what the bombing shook loose.
Search the façade for the sculptures a museum director hid under his mother-in-law's veranda from the Nazis.
Weigh two Nobel laureates side by side, each carrying a secret that nearly undid their legacy.
Peer into the tiny wooden cubicles where elderly residents lived, six square metres each, until the 1970s.
Listen for the only historic organs left in Lübeck, everything else was lost in a single night.
Sit where captains once sorted themselves by sailing route and dine beneath ship models hung five centuries ago.
Read the street name and guess angels, then learn why the real origin has nothing to do with heaven.
Watch a nineteenth-century swing bridge rotate sixty degrees in three minutes, still working as it always has.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(7)
Wonderful afternoon learning history, discovering unique sites and hearing great stories! The photo and the map features help! Plus, you can keep the narrative for review!
Thank you for the wonderful feedback! Glad the photo and map features, plus being able to revisit the narrative, made for such a great afternoon of history and stories. Hope to see you on another Tourific walk soon.
Excellent walking tour. Informative and interesting. Good pace, App was easy to navigate with accompanying pictures and text
Thank you for the great feedback! Glad the pace worked well and the app's pictures made it easy to navigate. Hope to see you on another Tourific walk soon.
Excellent self guided audio tour. Covered a lot of interesting spots in Lubeck and was informative. The app was easy to use although the map was fine we still managed to make a wrong turn! Took us about 4 hours with a couple of refreshment stops!
Thank you for the wonderful feedback! Glad the tour covered so many interesting spots in Lübeck and kept things informative along the way, sounds like a great day out, wrong turn and all! Hope to see you on another Tourific walk soon.
Excellent interesting tour. Easy to navigate the app (although we did manage to misread the map). Seemed to cover a lot of Lubeck history and sights.
Thank you for the great feedback! Glad the app was easy to navigate and that the tour covered so much of Lübeck's history and sights. Hope to see you on another Tourific walk soon.
This was a very informative, easy to follow, and fun tour. We really enjoyed it and can recommend it. The only thing I missed on it was visiting the Burgtor. Take time to go into the churches and look around, especially the St. Jakobi Kirche. It is worth it!
Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We're delighted you enjoyed the tour and appreciate your suggestion. We look forward to welcoming you on another tour soon.
This was a fantastic purchase. The app was very user-friendly and the interactive map was excellent. We felt very confident navigating our way around the city with no fear of getting lost. The photos helped assure us that we were in the right spot, looking at the right thing. The stories from each stop were interesting and informative and a good length. The time suggested for the length of the tour was for moving from stop-to-stop and listening to each stop but not for any exploration inside some of the stops. If you want to stop and go into each of the locations (many of which were free), you need to give yourself a lot more time. Some of the stops are describing things that are inside the buildings which we couldn’t really appreciate because we hadn’t allotted enough time to stop, but the information was still interesting. Overall, I would highly recommend this product, especially if you have a full day to explore Lübeck.
Thank you for your wonderful feedback. We're delighted you enjoyed the tour and found the app easy to use.
It was an excellent audio tour. Reasonably priced and we liked that we could follow the tour, take a break, and then do more of the tour.
Thank you for the kind feedback. We're delighted you enjoyed the tour.
