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Travemünde is a borough of Lübeck, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Lübeck Bay. It was founded in 1187. The city of Lübeck had already been granted the decisive rights to Travemünde by Emperor Frederick II in 1226. At that time the Priwall came to Travemünde. In 1329 Travemünde finally became part of the then Lübeck city-state. In the 12th century, Travemünde got strongly fortified by Henry the Lion to guard the mouth of the Trave, It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave. The fortifications were demolished in the early 19th century, as already since 1802 Travemünde has been a seaside resort. since 1802, One of the attractions is the four-masted barque "Passat", a museum ship anchored here. The Passat was built in 1911 as a grain and saltpetre transporter. She sailed around Cape Horn thirty-nine times and circumnavigated the globe twice. The Passat is related to the "Pamir", which sank in the Atlantic in 1957.

The area around Lübeck, today a large city with a population of more than 200,000, had been settled by Slavs since the 7th century. Slavs had a settlement north of the present city called "Liubice", which was razed by the pagan Rani tribe in 1128. 15 years later Adolf II, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, founded the modern town as a German settlement on the river island of Bucu. He built a new castle, first mentioned as existing in 1147. Adolf II had to cede the castle to the Duke of Saxony, Henry the Lion, in 1158. After Henry's fall from power in 1181, the town became an Imperial city. Emperor Barbarossa ordained that the city should have a ruling council of 20 members. With the council dominated by merchants, trade interests shaped Lübeck's politics for centuries. In the 14th century, Lübeck became the "Queen of the Hanseatic League", being by far the largest and most powerful member of that medieval trade organization. In 1375, Emperor Charles IV named Lübeck one of the five "Glories of the Empire", a title shared with Venice, Rome, Pisa, and Florence. Conflicts about trading privileges resulted in fighting between Lübeck (with the Hanseatic League) and Denmark and Norway – with varying outcome. While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536. From then on Lübeck's power slowly declined. The city remained neutral in the Thirty Years' War, but the devastation from the decades-long war and the new transatlantic orientation of European trade caused the Hanseatic League – and thus Lübeck with it – to decline in importance. However, Lübeck still remained an important trading town on the Baltic Sea. - The present three aisle church was erected around 1300 and replaced a Romanesque hall church on the same site after the great city fire of 1276, which was already mentioned around 1227. The Jakobikirche was consecrated in 1334 as a church of sailors and fishermen. St. Jakobi was one of the few Lübeck churches to remain undamaged during the bombing raid on Palm Sunday night in 1942. In the tower chapel of St. Jacobi there is a memorial to the sinking of the "Pamir", a four-masted barque. On 21 September 1957, she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores. 80 of the Pamir's 86 crew members lost their lives.