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The greater arms may only be used by the government of Hamburg. The coat of arms of the German state and city of Hamburg is a kind of national emblem. The coat of arms and the flags are regulated by the constitution of Hamburg and law. The colors of Hamburg are white and red. One of the oldest versions of the castle is found on a seal in 1241.
panoptikum .de. The Panoptikum Hamburg is a wax museum in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1879 by Friedrich Hermann Faerber, it is the country's oldest wax museum. Each wax figure takes up to two years and € 40,000 to complete. [1] According to its owners, the Panoptikum receives around 200,000 visitors annually as of 2018.
Haerlin transformed the building into a luxury hotel, naming it the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. In 1905, he opened an extension to the hotel, increasing it to 57 rooms. In 1911, the hotel was expanded again, to a total of 140 bedrooms and 50 bathrooms. In 1915, soon after the outbreak of World War I, the hotel was commandeered by the High Command ...
The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft ( HAPAG ), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved in its development were prominent citizens such as Albert Ballin (director general), Adolph Godeffroy, Ferdinand Laeisz, Carl Woermann ...
1195. Renovated. 1418 & 1878. Height. 132 m (433 ft) Saint Peter's Church ( German: Hauptkirche St. Petri, German coll.: Petrikirche) in Hamburg, Germany stands on the site of many former cathedrals. It has been a Protestant cathedral since the Reformation and its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
Neuengamme ( German pronunciation ⓘ) is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, located in the Bergedorf borough, near the river Dove Elbe (a tributary of the river Elbe ). In this rural quarter, part of the Vierlande, the population in 2020 was 3,711. During Nazi Germany, Neuengamme concentration camp was located in Neuengamme.
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 German Empire (1871–1918) and during the period of the Weimar Republic (1919–33). In Nazi Germany Hamburg was a Gau from 1934 until 1945.
