The keel was laid on July 31, 1999. 350 employees were involved in the reconstruction, mostly unskilled ABM workers. The initiator of the project, Lisa Dräger from Lübeck , said in a newspaper interview that she had the idea as early as 1936 when the " Lübecker Kogge ", a replica of a cog , drove the Olympic flame from Lübeck to the sailing competitions of the Olympic Games in Kiel . In 1991 the reconstruction of the Ubena cog from Bremen was exhibited in Lübeck and Lisa Dräger started the project. The ship is not a historical reconstruction, neither in design nor in construction, but only has set pieces that look like a medieval era. The sponsoring association and owner of the ship is the "Gesellschaft Weltkulturgut Hansestadt Lübeck (non-profit) eV", which was run by shipbuilder Eike Lehmann until his death in 2019 .
The ship in the home port of Lübeck
On 27 March 2004, the ship was lowered into the water ; the maiden voyage took place in April 2005. On Good Friday 2006, April 14th, Lisa started from Lübeck on her first international voyage. The destination of the trip was the Hanseatic city of Gdansk on the Polish Baltic coast, with stops in Stralsund and Kolberg . In 2013, the front part was damaged in a collision.
