ISSUE 176 - August 1, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Fabulous Firsts:
Lubeck (Jan. 1, 1859)
by B.W.H. Poole
The little state of Lubeck, comprising an area of only about 115 square miles, is now an insignificant part of the German republic, but in olden days the Free City of Lubeck was a place of considerable importance. The town, then known as Lubeca, was probably founded as early as 1060, and, though small, it was rich and consequently excited the cupidity of some of its larger neighbours.
It was devastated, rebuilt, and the center of numerous intrigues until it was ceded to the dukes of Saxony in 1158, but after that time it attained . . .
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