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From 1815 until 1866 Hamburg was an independent and sovereign state of the German Confederation, then the North German Confederation (1866–71), the German Empire (1871–1918) and during the period of the Weimar Republic (1918–33). In Nazi Germany Hamburg was a city-state and a Gau from 1934 until 1945.
Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [8][9] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. [10][1] The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a ...
1410 – Constitution of Hamburg established. 1412 – 1412 Unterelbe flood [de]. 1418 – St. Peter's Church rebuilt (approximate date). 1479 – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg [de] (public library) established in the Town Hall. 1491 – Printing press in operation. [5] 1500 – City expands its borders.
The north and east are predominantly Protestant, the south and west predominantly Catholic. Nowadays there is a non-religious majority in Hamburg and the former East German states. [31] Germany was, at one point, almost in its entirety within the Roman Catholic Holy Roman Empire, but was also the source of Protestant reformers such as Martin ...
The Elbphilharmonie (German pronunciation: [ˈɛlpfɪlhaʁmoˌniː] ⓘ; "Elbe Philharmonic Hall"), popularly nicknamed Elphi, [3][4] is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. The new glassy construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave, iceberg or quartz crystal resting on ...
Detail of a 1790s map of Hamburg. The area of today's Altstadt had a minor Bronze Age settlement dating from the 9th or 8th century BC. An Ingaevonian settlement at this location was known by the name "Treva" – a strategic trading node on amber routes during Iron Age and Late Antiquity.
hamburgmuseum.de. The Museum for Hamburg History (German: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte) is a history museum located in the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. The museum was established in 1908 and opened at its current location in 1922, although its parent organization was founded in 1839. The museum is located near the Planten un ...
With a population of approximately 1.8 million people, it is the second-largest city in Germany and eighth largest city in the European Union. Hamburg has a total area of 755 km 2 (292 sq mi). Hamburg was an independent and sovereign state of the German Confederation (1815–66), a city-state the North German Confederation (1866–71), the ...