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After the old city hall was destroyed in the great fire of 1842, it took almost 44 years to build a new one. The present building was designed by a group of seven architects, led by Martin Haller. Construction started in 1886 and the new city hall was inaugurated in 1897. Its cost was 11 million German gold marks, about €80 million. [1]
The Speicherstadtrathaus (English: Warehouse City Town Hall) is the administration building of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG.It is located in the historic warehouse complex of the Speicherstadt in the Port of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Bürgerschaft (literally citizenry) is a term in use since the Middle Ages to refer to the male inhabitants of Hamburg with citizenship. A committee of the landowning class within the city, called Erbgesessene Bürgerschaft, was formed out of this group in the 15th century to consult with the city's ruling councillors (Ratsherren; later called the "Senate of Hamburg" following the Roman ...
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Hamburg's rivers and canals are crossed by around 2,500 bridges, making it the city with the highest number of bridges in Europe, [13] and with 5 of the world's 29 tallest churches standing in Hamburg, it is also the city with the highest number of churches surpassing 100 metres (330 ft) worldwide.
The Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg is its own state in the Federal Republic of Germany. Hamburg is a republic, democratic welfare state and a constitutional state. At the same time Hamburg is a municipality, there is no separation between these two administrative tasks. [2] The power to create a law is restricted by federal law.
Widerstand und Verfolgung in Hamburg 1933–1945. Texte, Fotos und Dokumente. Published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Hamburg City Hall from January 22 to February 14, 2010. Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2010. Herbert Diercks: Gedenkbuch „Kola-Fu“. Für ...
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