LUBAO

lubao, a town in the south-western part of the province of pampanga, luzon, philippine islands, about 30 m. n.w. of manila. pop. (1903) 19,063. lubao is served by the manila & dagupan railway, and has water communication with manila by tidal streams and manila bay. its products are, therefore, readily marketed. it lies in a low, fertile plain, suited to the growing of rice and sugar. many of the inhabitants occupy themselves in the neighbouring nipa swamps, either preparing the nipa leaves for use in house construction, or distilling "nipa-wine" from the juice secured by tapping the blossom stalks. the language is pampangan. lubben, a town of germany, in the prussian province of brandenburg, on the spree, 47 m. s.s.e. of berlin, on the railway to gorlitz. pop. (1905) 7173. it is the chief town of the spreewald, and has saw-mills and manufactories of hosiery, shoes and paper, and is famous for its _gurken_, or small pickling cucumbers. the poet paul gerhardt (1607-1676) was pastor here and is buried in the parish church. lubeck, a state and city (_freie und hansestadt lubeck_) of germany. the _principality_ of lubeck, lying north of the state, is a constituent of the grand-duchy of oldenburg (q.v.). the state is situated on an arm of the baltic between holstein and mecklenburg-schwerin. it consists of the city of lubeck, the town of travemunde, 49 villages and the country districts, embraces 115 sq. m. of territory, and had a population in 1907 of 109,265, of which 93,978 were included in the city and its immediate suburbs. the state lies in the lowlands of the baltic, is diversified by gently swelling hills, and watered by the trave and its tributaries, the wakenitz and the stecknitz. the soil is fertile, and, with the exception of forest land (14% of the whole area), is mostly devoted to market gardening. trade is centred in the city of lubeck. the constitution of the free state is republican, and, by the fundamental law of 1875, amended in 1905 and again in 1907, consists of two assemblies. (1) the senate of fourteen members, of whom eight must belong to the learned professions, and six of these again must be jurists, while of the remaining six, five must be merchants. the senate represents the sovereignty of the state and is presided over by the _oberburgermeister_, who during his two years' term of office bears the title of "magnificence." (2) the house of burgesses (burgerschaft), of 120 members, elected by free suffrage and exercising its powers partly in its collective capacity and partly through a committee of thirty members. purely commercial matters are dealt with by the chamber of commerce, composed of a _praeses_, eighteen members and a secretary. this body controls the exchange and appoints brokers, shipping agents and underwriters. the executive is in the hands of the senate, but the house of burgesses has the right of initiating legislation, including that relative to foreign treaties; the sanction of both chambers is required to the passing of any new law. lubeck has a court of first instance (_amtsgericht_) and a high court of justice (_landgericht_); from the latter appeals lie to the hanseatic court of appeal (_oberlandesgericht_) at hamburg, and from this again to the supreme court of the empire (_reichsgericht_) in leipzig. the people are nearly all lutherans, and education is compulsory between the ages of six and fourteen. the estimated revenue for the year 1908-1909 amounted to about £650,000, and the expenditure to a like sum. the public debt amounted, in 1908, to about £2,518,000. lubeck has one vote in the federal council (_bundesrat_) of the german empire, and sends one representative to the imperial parliament (_reichstag_). _history of the constitution._--at the first rise of the town justice was administered to the inhabitants by the _vogt_ (_advocatus_) of the count of holstein. simultaneously with its incorporation by henry the lion, duke of saxony, who presented the city with its own mint toll and market, there appears a magistracy of six, chosen probably by the _vogt_ from the _schoffen_ (_scabini, probi homines_). the members of the town council had to be freemen, born in lawful wedlock, in the enjoyment of estates in freehold and of unstained repute. vassals or servants of any lord, and tradespeople, were excluded. a third of the number had annually to retire for a year, so that two-thirds formed the sitting council. by the middle of the 13th century there were two burgomasters (_magistri burgensium_). meanwhile, the number of magistrates (_consules_) had increased, ranging from twenty to forty and upwards. the council appointed its own officers in the various branches of the administration. in the face of so much self-government the _vogt_ presently disappeared altogether. there were three classes of inhabitants, full freemen, half freemen and guests or foreigners. people of slav origin being considered unfree, all intermarriage with them tainted the blood; hence nearly all surnames point to saxon, especially westphalian, and even flemish descent. the magistracy was for two centuries almost exclusively in the hands of the merchant aristocracy, who formed the companies of traders or "nations," such as the _bergen-fahrer_, _novgorod-fahrer_, _riga-fahrer_ and _stockholm-fahrer_. from the beginning, however, tradesmen and handicraftsmen had settled in the town, all of them freemen of german parentage and with property and houses of their own. though not eligible for the council, they shared to a certain extent in the self-government through the aldermen of each corporation or gild, of which some appear as early as the statutes of 1240. naturally, there arose much jealousy between the gilds and the aristocratic companies, which exclusively ruled the republic. after an attempt to upset the merchants had been suppressed in 1384, the gilds succeeded, under more favourable circumstances, in 1408. the old patrician council left the city to appeal to the hansa and to the imperial authorities, while a new council with democratic tendencies, elected chiefly from the gilds, took their place. in 1416, however, owing to the pressure brought to bear by the hansa, by the emperor sigismund and by eric, king of denmark, there was a restoration. the aristocratic government was again expelled under the dictatorship of jurgen wullenweber (c. 1492-1537), till the old order was re-established in 1535. in the constitution of 1669, under the pressure of a large public debt, the great companies yielded a specified share in the financial administration to the leading gilds of tradesmen. nevertheless, the seven great companies continued to choose the magistrates by co-optation among themselves. three of the four burgomasters and two of the senators, however, had henceforth to be graduates in law. the constitution, set aside only during the french occupation, has subsequently been slowly reformed. from 1813 the popular representatives had some share in the management of the finances. but the reform committee of 1814, whose object was to obtain an extension of the franchise, had made little progress, when the events of 1848 led to the establishment of a representative assembly of 120 members, elected by universal suffrage, which obtained a place beside the senatorial government. the republic has given up its own military contingent, its coinage and its postal dues to the german empire; but it has preserved its municipal self-government and its own territory, the inhabitants of which enjoy equal political privileges with the citizens. _the city of lubeck._--lubeck, the capital of the free state, was formerly the head of the hanseatic league. it is situated on a gentle ridge between the rivers trave and wakenitz, 10 m. s.w. of the mouth of the former in the bay of lubeck, 40 m. by rail n.e. of hamburg, at the junction of lines to eutin, buchen, travemunde and strassburg (in mecklenburg-schwerin) and consists of an inner town and three suburbs. the former ramparts between the trave and the old town ditch have been converted into promenades. the city proper retains much of its ancient grandeur, despite the tendency to modernize streets and private houses. foremost among its buildings must be mentioned its five chief churches, stately gothic edifices in glazed brick, with lofty spires and replete with medieval works of art--pictures, stained glass and tombs. of them, the marienkirche, built in the 13th century, is one of the finest specimens of early gothic in germany. the cathedral, or _domkirche_, founded in 1173, contains some curious sarcophagi and a magnificent altarpiece in one of the chapels, while the churches of st james (_jakobikirche_), of st peter (_petrikirche_) and of st aegidius (_aegidienkirche_) are also remarkable. the _rathaus_ (town hall) of red and black glazed brick, dating from various epochs during the middle ages, is famous for its staircase, the vaulted wine cellar of the city council beneath and magnificent wood carving. there should also be mentioned the _schiffershaus_; the medieval gates (holstentor, burgtor); and the hospital of the holy ghost, remarkable for ancient frescoes and altars in rich wood carving, the entrance hall of which is a 13th-century chapel, restored in 1866 and decorated in 1898. the museum preserves the most remarkable municipal archives in existence as well as valuable collections of historical documents. the poet, emanuel geibel (1889), and the painter, johann friedrich overbeck (1789-1869), were natives of lubeck. this city is famous for the number and wealth of its charitable institutions. its position as the first german emporium of the west end of the baltic has been to some extent impaired by hamburg and bremen since the construction of the north sea and baltic canal, and by the rapid growth and enterprise of stettin. in order to counterbalance their rivalry, the quays have been extended, a canal was opened in 1900 between the trave and the elbe, the river up to the wharves has been deepened to 23 ft. or more. the river is kept open in winter by ice-breakers. a harbour was made in 1899-1900 on the wakenitz canal for boats engaged in inland traffic, especially on the elbe and elbe-trave canal. lubeck trades principally with denmark, sweden, finland, russia, the eastern provinces of prussia, great britain and the united states. the imports amounted in value to about £4,850,000 in 1906 and the exports to over £10,000,000. the chief articles of import are coal, grain, timber, copper, steel and wine, and the exports are manufactured goods principally to russia and scandivania. the industries are growing, the chief being breweries and distilleries, saw-mills and planing-mills, shipbuilding, fish-curing, the manufacture of machinery, engines, bricks, resin, preserves, enamelled and tin goods, cigars, furniture, soap and leather. pop. (1885) 55,399; (1905) 91,541. _history._--old lubeck stood on the left bank of the trave, where it is joined by the river schwartau, and was destroyed in 1138. five years later count adolphus ii. of holstein founded new lubeck, a few miles farther up, on the peninsula buku, where the trave is joined on the right by the wakenitz, the emissary of the lake of ratzeburg. an excellent harbour, sheltered against pirates, it became almost at once a competitor for the commerce of the baltic. its foundation coincided with the beginning of the advance of the low german tribes of flanders, friesland and westphalia along the southern shores of the baltic--the second great emigration of the colonizing saxon element. in 1140 wagria, in 1142 the country of the polabes (ratzeburg and lauenburg), had been annexed by the holtsaetas (the transalbingian saxons). from 1166 onwards there was a saxon count at schwerin. frisian and saxon merchants from soest, bardowiek and other localities in lower germany, who already navigated the baltic and had their factory in gotland, settled in the new town, where wendish speech and customs never entered. about 1157 henry the lion, duke of saxony, forced his vassal, the count of holstein, to give up lubeck to him; and in 1163 he removed thither the episcopal see of oldenburg (stargard), founding at the same time the dioceses of ratzeburg and schwerin. he issued the first charter to the citizens, and constituted them a free saxon community having their own magistrate, an advantage over all other towns of his dominions. he invited traders of the north to visit his new market free of toll and custom, providing his subjects were promised similar privileges in return. from the beginning the king of denmark granted them a settlement for their herring fishery on the coast of schoonen. adopting the statutes of soest in westphalia as their code, saxon merchants exclusively ruled the city. in concurrence with the duke's _vogt_ (_advocatus_) they recognized only one right of judicature within the town, to which nobles as well as artisans had to submit. under these circumstances the population grew rapidly in wealth and influence by land and sea, so that, when henry was attainted by the emperor, frederick i., who came in person to besiege lubeck in 1181, this potentate, "in consideration of its revenues and its situation on the frontier of the empire," fixed by charter, dated the 19th of september 1188, the limits, and enlarged the liberties, of the free town. in the year 1201 lubeck was conquered by waldemar ii. of denmark. but in 1223 it regained its liberty, after the king had been taken captive by the count of schwerin. in 1226 it was made a free city of the empire by frederick ii., and its inhabitants took part with the enemies of the danish king in the victory of bornhovede in july 1227. the citizens repelled the encroachments of their neighbours in holstein and in mecklenburg. on the other hand their town, being the principal emporium of the baltic by the middle of the 13th century, acted as the firm ally of the teutonic knights in livonia. emigrants founded new cities and new sees of low german speech among alien and pagan races; and thus in the course of a century the commerce of lubeck had supplanted that of westphalia. in connexion with the germans at visby, the capital of gotland, and at riga, where they had a house from 1231, the people of lubeck with their armed vessels scoured the sea between the trave and the neva. they were encouraged by papal bulls in their contest for the rights of property in wrecks and for the protection of shipping against pirates and slave-hunters. before the close of the century the statutes of lubeck were adopted by most baltic towns having a german population, and visby protested in vain against the city on the trave having become the court of appeal for nearly all these cities, and even for the german settlement in russian novgorod. in course of time more than a hundred places were embraced in this relation, the last vestiges of which did not disappear until the beginning of the 18th century. from about 1299 lubeck presided over a league of cities, wismar, rostock, stralsund, greifswald and some smaller ones, and this hansa of towns became heir to a hansa of traders simultaneously on the eastern and the western sea, after lubeck and her confederates had been admitted to the same privileges with cologne, dortmund and soest at bruges and in the steelyards of london, lynn and boston. the union held its own, chiefly along the maritime outskirts of the empire, rather against the will of king and emperor, but nevertheless rudolph of habsburg and several of his successors issued new charters to lubeck. as early as 1241 lubeck, hamburg and soest had combined to secure their highways against robber knights. treaties to enforce the public peace were concluded in 1291 and 1338 with the dukes of brunswick, mecklenburg and pomerania, and the count of holstein. though the great federal armament against waldemar