Welf Duke Henry the Lion advances German …
Years: 1173 - 1173
Welf Duke Henry the Lion advances German colonization into Holstein, Lauenburg, and Mecklenburg, and aids Lübeck’s rise as a commercial force in the Baltic.
Construction begins in 1173 on the city’s Romanesque cathedral, sponsored by Henry as a cathedral for the Bishop of Lübeck.
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- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Western Architecture: 1108 to 1252
- Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
