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Hamburg - Germany
The free and hanseatic town Hamburg is a country of the federal republic of Germany as a city state and to Berlin the second largest town of Germany at the same time. Hamburg is center of the European metro pole region Hamburg, one of altogether eleven European metro pole regions in Germany.
Story of Hamburg
Dating the oldest solid accommodations for the 4th century before christ. An inflow of Saxony was carried out into the nordelbischen room from 4 up to the 6th century.
Charlemagne had a baptizing church built in 810 to proselytize the heathen north. The Hammaburg is built to its safeguarding. 831 justified Ludwig the religious here a diocese which got later to the archbishopric for a short time. But Vikings attacked the region, late the Slavonic Obodriten, this one already shortly after the empire partition of Verdun archbishop transferred his seat to Bremen. Substantially by the port right awarded to 1189 the town developed into a flourishing trade center in the Middle Ages and was for 600 breweries as a brewery of the Hanseatic League with his temporarily. At the reformation time the city state got Protestant without bloodsheds, 1619 Hamburg was the largest town of Germany.
Also after the decline of the Hanseatic League and during the clearing up and the industrialization the town remained the most important economy center North Germany. Special events of the modern times were the great Hamburg fire 1842, a devastating cholera epidemic 1892, the bombings in the second World War and the storm tide 1962.
Hamburg's politics had always been aligned with greatest possible liberty of its trade and political independence. Also today is still standalone for Hamburg as a city state most largely and offers the trade good prerequisites with its free port.
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