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 Car Hire & Driving in Lubeck, GermanyWelcome to Lubeck Car Hire, Germany.Lubeck Car HireOnce the seat of the powerful Hanseatic League, historic Lubeck is among the most handsome of German cities that you can visit in your German hire car. Lubeck has more than 1,000 medieval buildings, from the monumental to the domestic, so there is plenty for you to explore in your German hire car while in Lubeck. Just 66km (41 miles) east of Hamburg in your German hire car, with good road connections from around north Germany that you can use in your German hire car to explore further a field, Lubeck is easy to get to in your German hire car. Thanks to Lubeck’s compact Altstadt (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and a relaxed urban pace that together make Lubeck a pleasure to explore in your German hire car. Radiating from the central Marktplatz in Lubeck, a network of main streets that you can explore in your German hire car reaches out to a moat formed around Lubeck by the River Trave and its connecting canals. All of Lubeck’s principal attractions that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while in Lubeck lie within, or just beyond, the central island created by this oval of water. The highlights of Lubeck that you should visit in your German hire car while in Lubeck include:- The Buddenbrookhaus, which you will find at Mengstrasse 4 in your German hire car in Lubeck. This is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of ‘Buddenbrooks’, the 1901novel by Lubeck native Thomas Mann, which tells the story of the rise and fall of a Lubeck merchant family. You might easily think you’ve strayed back in times to Hanseatic Lubeck when you enter the Haus der Schiffergesellschaft, a late Gothic Seafarer’s Guild House from 1535, which is now an excellent restaurant worth stopping at in your German hire car while in Lubeck. You will find Holstentor on the Holstentor platz in your German hire car in Lubeck. Guarding the western entrance to the Altstadt in Lubeck, the twin-towered city gate, built between 1477 was influenced by Flemish models like those of Bruge, fostered by Han seatic trade connections. While here in your German hire car you can also visit the Museum Holstener, which skips through a thousand years of municipal history and displays a superb mode of 17th century Lubeck. A masterpiece of the Brick Gothic style, Marien Kirche, the Church of Our Lady was built in Lubeck between 1200 and 1350 on Lubeck’s highest point, which you will find just north of the Rathaus in your German hire car. Its twin towers, each 125m (410ft) high, are Lubeck’s loftiest and definitely worth a visit in your German hire car while in Lubeck. Finally the Rathaus, which you will find on the Rathausplatz in your German hire car in Lubeck, dates from 1230, but has been extended and rebuilt several times over the centuries. The multi-turreted, red and black brick Town Hall is mostly Gothic, but has earlier Romanesque elements and a later Reaissance sandstone loggia, and is definitely worth exploring in your German hire car while in Lubeck. You can also take advantage of Lubeck’s proximity to the Baltic coast by visiting the beaches and seafood restaurants at nearby Travemunde in your German hire car, and also the sea cliffs of the Brodtener Steiufer are worth investigating in your German hire car on a trip from Lubeck in your German hire car. For more advice on what to see and do while in Lubeck in your German hire car can be obtained from Lubeck’s Tourist Information office, which you will find at Brieite Strasse 62 in your German hire car in Lubeck. Northern Germany Car HireNorthern Germany consists of the Lander of Niedersachsen, Schlewig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the city states of Hamburg and Bremen. The countryside of Northern Germany is mainly flat, sometimes rolling and encompasses Germany’s entire maritime coastline; providing you with plenty to investigate in your German hire car. Northern Germany’s many bustling harbour towns that you can visit in your German hire car while in Northern Germany, were once members of the Hanseatic League and are complemented by the agricultural hinterland. In Northern Germany you can obtain a German hire car at Bremen, Hamburg, Lubeck and Luenenburg/Luneburg. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip in your German hire car to these places in Northern Germany, visit our Bremen Car Hire, Hamburg Car Hire, Lubeck Car Hire or Luenenburg/Luneburg Car Hire links. The quality of the German road network makes driving a German hire car an excellent way to explore Germany. Although constant driving in your German hire car at high speed can be tiring, the Autobahn makes it possible to cover long distance across Germany in your German hire car in a short time, enabling you to move easily in your German hire car from one area of interest to another. A German hire car is the best way of getting around Germany if you aim to explore smaller towns, villages and the countryside of Germany. The best known feature of Germany’s extensive and well maintained road system that you can use in your German hire car is the Autobahn, the network of toll-free motorways covering the whole of Germany. However other roads like Bundesstrassen (national roads) and Landstrassen (main roads) are generally engineered to a high standard, with good surfaces and helpful signposting to help you navigate in your German hire car. While driving around Germany in your German hire car you will find that Autobahns are identified by a white letter ‘A’ and a number on a blue background and national roads by a black letter ‘B’ and number on a yellow background. The previously inadequate road network of eastern Germany has been transformed beyond recognition through the construction of motorways across eastern Germany, like the Ostseeautobahn, which links the Baltic coast to the rest of Germany, and through the improvement of other roads, which now make the roads of eastern Germany a pleasure to use in your German hire car. The downside to all this rebuilding across Germany is the density of traffic. In your German hire car, you may find that congestion can be acute in built-up areas and anywhere at holiday times. There are more than 100 named tourist routes that you can use in your German hire car which criss-cross Germany. Some, such as stretches of the Deutsche Alpenstrasse (German Alpine Road) that you can use in your German hire car, were purpose-built as scenic highways through Germany, although most are ordinary roads linking places of similar interest that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while. The best known of these routes that you can explore in your German hire car while is probably the Romantische Strasse (Romantic Road), which run from Wurzburg in northern Bavaria to Fussenn at the foot of the Alps and takes you through picturesque, historic towns in your German hire car on the way. Even if they are not designated as such, many of the roads you can use in your German hire car through Germany’s well-wooded uplands qualify as scenic routes, and extensions of the Autobahn networks that you can use in your German hire car also offer spectacular visual experience of the German countryside. Germans are fast drivers and determined popular resistance among motorists has prevented the adoption of a compulsory speed limit on Germany’s Autobahn. Although the speeds can be a little unnerving when driving in your German hire car, most drivers are aware of what they are doing and respect the rules of the road, having passed Germany’s particularly rigorous driving test. Once you have become used to conditions in your German hire car, you will find the behaviour of fellow road users fairly predictable. While exploring Germany in your German hire car it is useful to have knowledge of the rules of the roads. Germans drive on the right; on roads without yellow diamond priority signs, you should give way to traffic from the right in your German hire car; seat belts must be worn by all occupants of you German hire car; children under 12 must use an appropriate safety seat while travelling in your German hire car; you should halt at tram stops where there is no central reservation in your German hire car and allow passengers to cross the road; you should give way to trams and buses in your German hire car as they leave stops; ensure you use dipped headlights on your German hire car in poor visibility and in tunnels; do not use side lights when driving your German hire car; give way to pedestrians in your German hire car when turning at uncontrolled junctions (intersections); do not drink and drive you German hire car as the penalties are severe; traffic lights are supplemented by priority signs, which must be obeyed in your German hire car when the lights are not functioning e.g. at night or weekends; insulting behaviour to others while driving in your German hire car is an offence; fines can be imposed on the spot by police and your German hire car may be confiscated; finally a flashing light may indicating that you can turn right in your German hire car when traffic lights are red, but you must give way to traffic coming from the other direction.
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