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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 8th-largest in the European Union, with a population of over 1.9 million. [10] [1] The Hamburg Metropolitan ...
- 755.22 km² (291.59 sq mi)
- 1,945,532
- Germany
- Hamburg Parliament
4 days ago · The Free and Hanseatic City (Freie und Hansestadt) of Hamburg is the second smallest of the 16 Länder of Germany, with a territory of only 292 square miles (755 square km). It is also the most populous city in Germany after Berlin and has one of the largest and busiest ports in Europe. The official name, which covers both the Land and the town ...
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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.
List of cities in Germany by population (only Großstädte, i.e. cities over 100,000 population) Metropolitan regions in Germany; Numbers of cities and towns in the German states: Bavaria: 317 cities and towns; Baden-Württemberg: 316 cities and towns; North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns; Hesse: 191 cities and towns; Saxony: 169 cities ...
At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Hamburg was once again named a 'free city', along with Bremen, Frankfurt and Lübeck, within the new 38-state German Confederation. Yet ill fate struck again in 1842 when the Great Fire left 20,000 of Hamburg's citizens homeless and over a third of the city in ruins, including many old buildings such as St ...
After Napoleon’s downfall (1814–15), Hamburg became a member state of the German Confederation, with the designation “Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg” from 1819. Prosperity was quickly recovered, as Hamburg’s trade was extended to newly opened territories in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Even the great fire of May 1842, which ...
May 11, 2023 · In 1575 a great number of people from the Netherlands immigrated to Hamburg and brought much prosperity to the city. In the 19th century emigration to the United States began. Hamburg was the transitional stop for emigrants from the Northern German coastal countries as well as from Eastern European countries.
