Travemunde on the Baltic Sea is currently a beach in Lubeck city. Thomas Mann, who was born in a Hansa city, Lubeck that dominated the Northern Europe grew up seeing the Baltic Sea in Travemunde. Buddenbrooks(1901)is the novel about the collapse process of Lubeck which was a free, and important trade city in the Baltic Sea written by Thomas Mann from his remembrance of Lubeck city in his childhood. This paper shows the below two facts based on the analysis on Travemunde, a resort city in the Baltic Sea described in Buddenbrooks(Travemunde and Lubeck were separated cities in the middle of the 19th century, the historical backdrop of this novel) First, this paper is pointing out that Travemunde in the novel reflects the view of the resort city in his days and the custom of Travemunde in the book is also identical to that of the time when the writer lived there. Second, although Travemunde is well described in this work, Thomas Mann is the writer not interested in landscape description by nature. Thus, he says that the sea is not an object of landscapes, but that of metaphysical experience. This paper followed his such assertion in analyzing the symbolism of Travemunde Sea: Travemunde was the sea of love and death for him. It means that Lubeck embodied the place of living, while Travemunde represented the space for death/spirit contrasting life. Seen in this light, we can see how the early Thomas Mann``s work deploys through place its main thema, life and death/spirit.