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5 unusual facts about Hanseatic League


Fortifications of Copenhagen

This stood for 200 years until it was destroyed by the Hanse in 1369.

Government of Hamburg

During World War I (1914 – 1918) the Hanseatic Cross (German: Hanseatenkreuz) was a decoration of the three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were member states of the German Empire.

Hammeren

The chapel was constructed in connection with Bornholm's herring trade with the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

Rathaus

Several cities in Estonia, particularly those whose histories trace to the Hanseatic era, call their city councils raad and their houses raekoda.

SC Germania Hamburg

The club colours were the Hanseatic red and white in honour of the City of Hamburg, with the blue and black of the oldest of the founding clubs, Germania, being used on the team badge.


Battle of Corbach

The Battle of Corbach, or Korbach, a Hanseatic town of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, was fought on 10 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War.

Bock

The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck.

German Renaissance

Many examples of Brick Renaissance buildings can be found in Hanseatic old towns, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Friedrichstadt and Stade.

Intercursus Magnus

Other signatories included the commercial powers of Venice, Florence, the Netherlands, and the Hanseatic League.

John Woodall

Woodall is known to have then lived and worked as a surgeon in Polonia and Stade, a Hanseatic port near Hamburg, Whilst there he was occasionally employed as a German interpreter by visiting English ambassadors.

Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

After the Congress of Vienna, Karl Alexander took over the Hessian and Thuringian postal services, as well as those in the Hanseatic League cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck, and Schaffhausen.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

It also offers important historical cities, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Greifswald and Rostock as former Hanseatic cities - or Schwerin, Güstrow, Ludwigslust and Neustrelitz as former residences.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Most of the German federal states (Länder) have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order.

Stege, Denmark

The powerful Hansa state Lübeck attacked Stege in 1510 and 1522, but the town defended itself both times.

Tiedemann Giese

His father was Albrecht Giese and his brother, the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese.


see also

Basil Wenceslas

Basil Wenceslas was made Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League in 2406 A.D and supervised the reign of the puppet kings Frederick and Peter.

Brick Gothic

The newly founded cities soon joined the Hanseatic League and formed the "Wendic Circle", with its centre at Lübeck, and the "Gotland-Livland Circle", with its main centre at Tallinn (Reval).

Watzenrode

Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–1462), Hanseatic League tradesman in Thorn (Toruń), Prussia, grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus