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ARTICLES RELATED TO Hamburg - History | | | |  Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - HistoryThe city takes its name from the first permanent building on the site, a fort that Charlemagne ordered built as a defence against Slavic incursion. The fort went up in 808 on some rocky ground in a marsh between the Alster and the Elbe. It was named Hamma Burg, where the "burg" means "fort."
The "Hamma" element remains uncertain. Old High German includes both a hamma, "angle" and a hamme, "pastureland." The angle might refer to a spit of land or to the curvature of a river. However, the language spoken might not have been Old H ...
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Hamburg - Institutions.
DESY - Deutsches Elektronen SYnchrotron, the German Electron Synchrotron
Literaturhaus
Hamburg - Churches.
The skyline of Hamburg features the high spires of the five main churches ('Hauptkirchen') covered with green copper plates.
St. Michaelis church ('Michel')
St. Nikolai church (memorial)
St. Petri church (11th century)
St. Jakobi church (13th century)
St. Kath ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Tourism Hamburg is best visited in spring or summer. A typical Hamburg visit includes a tour of the city hall and the grand church St. Michaelis (called the Michel), and visiting the old warehouse district (Speicherstadt) and the harbour promenade (Landungsbrücken). Sightseeing busses connect these points of interest. Of course, a visit in one of the world's largest harbours would definitely be incomplete without having taken one of the harbour and/or canal boat tours (Große Hafenrundfahrt, Fleetfahrt) which star ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Constructions
Hamburg - Tunnels.
Old Elbe Tunnel (Alter Elbtunnel)
New Elbe Tunnel (Elbtunnel)
Hamburg - Bridges.
The countless beautiful canals in Hamburg are crossed by over 2300 bridges - that's more than Amsterdam (1200) and Venice (400) have together.
Köhlbrandbrücke
Hamburg - Towers and masts.
Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
Transmitter Hamburg-Billstedt
Champions League ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Transport Hamburg is connected by four Autobahnen (motorways) and is the most important railway junction on the route to Northern Europe. Hamburg's international airport is Hamburg Airport, which is the oldest airport in Germany still in operation.
Though large cities in Germany normally only have a one letter prefix (e.g. B for Berlin), Hamburg's vehicle licence plate prefix is "HH" (Hansestadt Hamburg, English: Hanseatic City Hamburg), which ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Economy
The most significant economic basis for Hamburg in the past centuries has been (and still is) its harbour (see: Hamburg Harbour), which ranks 2nd in Europe and 9th worldwide with transshipments of 7 million standard container units (TEU) and 115 million tonnes of goods in 2004. International trade is also the reason for the large number of consulates in the city.
Other important industries are the aerospace company Airbus, which has one of its two assembly plants located there, and media busi ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Politics The Bürgerschaft (city assembly) is the parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (official name, German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), which is voted for by the citizens of Hamburg every four years.
The first mayor of the city (Erster Bürgermeister) as head of the senate (which forms the executive branch) is elected by the Bürgerschaft (city assembly) and is thus head of the city state. Currently, this is Ole von Beust (CDU).
See ...
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| | | | Hamburg - History: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - Districts Hamburg is organized in seven boroughs (Bezirke) comprising 104 quarters (Stadtteile):
Altona
Bergedorf
Eimsbüttel
Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Nord
Hamburg-Harburg
Wandsbek
The neighbouring districts of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein belong to the Greater Hamburg Metropolitan Region, including:
Pinneberg (Schleswig-Holstein)
Segeberg (Schleswig-Holstein)
Stormarn (Schleswig-Holstein)
Lauenburg (Schleswig-Holstein)
Harburg (Lower Saxony) ...
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