History of Hamburg

History Of Hamburg

The history the Hamburg begins with its foundation in the 9th century as a mission settlement to convert the Saxons. Since the Middle Ages Hamburg was an important trading centre in Europe. The convenient location of the port and its independence as a city and state for centuries strengthened this position.

The city was member in the medieval Hanseatic trading league and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. 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. After the Second World War Hamburg was in the British Zone of Occupation and became a state in the western part of Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany (Since 1949).

Timeline of Events 600 — – 700 — – 800 — – 900 — – 1000 — – 1100 — – 1200 — – 1300 — – 1400 — – 1500 — – 1600 — – 1700 — – 1800 — – 1900 — – 2000 — ← Colonization by Saxons ← Hammaburg in 810 ← Mariendom in 1035 ← Port and market rights in 1189 ← First great fire of 1248 ← Altar St. Petri church in 1383 ← Störtebeker's decapitation in 1401 ← Lutheran Church Law in 1529 ← One of the largest cities in Germany in 1619 ← Hauptrezess in 1712 ← French occupation 1806–14 ← The great fire of 1842 ← State of Hamburg in 1871 ← Greater Hamburg Act in 1938 ← Bombing of Hamburg in World War II in 1943 ← North Sea flood of 1962