History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck | |||||||||
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| 1226–1811 1815–1937 | |||||||||
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Location of the Free City of Lübeck within the German Empire | |||||||||
Territory of the Free City of Lübeck, 1815–1937 | |||||||||
| Status | Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire Member of the German Confederation Member of the North German Confederation State of the German Empire State of the Weimar Republic | ||||||||
| Capital | Lübeck | ||||||||
| Official languages | German | ||||||||
| Religion | Evangelical Lutheran Church in the State of Lübeck | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1226 | |||||||||
• Annexed by French Empire | 1811 | ||||||||
1815 | |||||||||
| 1 April 1937 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (German: Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck) was a city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.