Larger Hamburg
Hamburg lost most of its exclaves, including Geesthacht and Cuxhaven. In return, Hamburg was enlarged by including formerly Prussian cities like Altona, Wandsbek, and Harburg-Wilhelmsburg as well as a number of villages. This represented the formal merger of what had previously been referred to as the "Four-City Region".
A symbolic but important change was the "renaming" of Hamburg. It had to be referred to as "Hansestadt Hamburg" ("Hanseatic city of Hamburg") instead of "Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg" ("Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg"). The reference to freedom in the older name dates back to the Holy Roman Empire, which included a number of more-or-less independent imperial free cities, including Hamburg.
Read more about this topic: Greater Hamburg Act
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