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The seven towers of the five gothical main churches on the old part of town hill medieval Hanseatic city Luebeck embody the city opinion become the landmark and the city.

The brick-gothical seven church towers of pc. Jakobi, pc. Marien, pc. Petri, pc. Aegidien and the cathedral tower above the townscape for centuries and are visible as silhouette from from far away from the entire surrounding countryside in Holstein and Mecklenburg. The highest of them, the pair of double towers of the Marienkirche, rise approximately 125 m over the ground and thus in the otherwise flat holsteinischen landscape approximately 150 m over NN (to the comparison: the highest collection of Schleswig-Holstein, the Bungsberg in east Holstein, points a height of 168 m over NN to).

They are simultaneous beside the getting gate a landmark of the city and mark, which are used also by enterprises in Luebeck and the region.

The oldest representation of the city opinion from 1481 is on an altar portrait of the of painter Hermen Rode in the Nikolaikirche of Tallinn. The term of the seven towers is however a modern coinage, since the old city opinion in all illustrations exhibits still eight towers until 1818. These north the Jakobikirche standing tower of the Maria Magdalena geweihten former church of the castle monastery 1818 with the church were torn off.

The unique city opinion became in the first half 20. Century of the industrial designer Alfred Mahlau to the picture mark for the Schwartauer of works, one in bath Schwartau resident manufacturer of jam and sweet goods out-arranges later trained by him also into the mark appearance of the Marzipanherstellers Niederegger. Also the city Luebeck worked in and the 60's 50's with a diagram of the seven towers of Mahlau on brochures and posters around the favour of the tourists. These posters are in the meantime because of their artistic requirement desired pieces of collecting tank. The savings bank continues to use the Logo of the seven towers in its external appearance for Luebeck. They are one of the points of anchor of entire city marketing.


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