eubank was the hub of the hands the attic league for the baltic sea region salt and dried fish made the merchants rich they also traded calls spices and other speciality is. lubeck was the queen of the handy attic league for five hundred years as part of the city's anniversary celebrations its hands the arctic museum is presenting a special exhibition showing the influence that period continues to have to this day nowhere else in northern germany and has so many houses from the middle ages around eighty percent of the old town is a unesco world heritage site the city is also proud of its three famous sons really plant goods across and thomas marks. the first one of the fascination that comes from having three nobel laureates. lucic is i believe unique in germany i think this is simply a treasure for people who are interested in literature. and shouts i'm going to cost immortalized his love for lubeck in a poem but lou because have long forgiven thomas mann for the fact the characters in his novel wooden box closely resembled prominent citizens and didn't exactly cut a sympathetic figure