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Hamburg, in German officially called Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is a city-state in northern Germany and the country's second largest city. The port city is located on the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between continental Central Europe to her south, Scandinavia to her north, the North Sea to her west, and the Baltic Sea to her east. Hamburg borders the German states of Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south.
The Elbe river flows through the Port of Hamburg, which is the third-largest port in Europe. With a population of approximately 1.8 million people, it is the second-largest city in Germany and eighth largest city in the European Union. Hamburg has a total area of 755 km2 (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. After the Second World War, Hamburg was in the British Zone of Occupation and became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. (Full article)
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Abraham Ulrikab (c. 1845 - January 13, 1881) was an Inuk from Hebron, Labrador, in the present day province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who — along with his family — was to become a zoo exhibit in Europe in 1880 as an attraction at the Hamburg, Germany public zoo.
Ulrikab, along with his wife and two daughters and four other Inuit, had agreed to become the newest attractions in the Hamburg Zoo. On August 26, 1880, all eight Inuit from Labrador boarded the schooner Eisbär (which means "polar bear" in German) to take part in a bizarre display of the native way of the Inuit in northern communities. As instructed by zoo keepers, they simply had to walk, talk, wear their fur parkas and throw the odd harpoon to earn their keep.
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Hamburg in 1680 (from History of Hamburg) -
Buildings ruined by air raids (from History of Hamburg) -
Hamburg's central promenade Jungfernstieg on River Alster in 1900 (from History of Hamburg) -
Peter Tschentscher in 2011 (from Government of Hamburg) -
Hanseatic Cross (from Government of Hamburg) -
Altona Balkon, overlooking Hamburg Harbour at a height of 27 m (89 ft) above the Elbe (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Wilhelmsburg Inselpark (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Room of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (Diet) (from Government of Hamburg) -
Hamburg by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg (1588) (from History of Hamburg) -
The great fire 1842, by Peter Suhr, 1842 (from History of Hamburg) -
Fire medal from 1843 -
Police Staff Captain of the Hamburg police department on assignment at Hamburg city hall (from Government of Hamburg) -
Museum der Arbeit main building (from List of museums in Hamburg) -
Hammer Park's Topiary Garden (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
The first Rezeß of 1410 (from History of Hamburg) -
Hamburg in 1150, a 19th-century visualization (from History of Hamburg) -
The sculpture „Der sterbende Häftling“ (The Dying Prisoner) at the memorial site of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The camp operated from 1938 to 1945 in the Neuengamme neighbourhood of Hamburg. (from History of Hamburg) -
Sternschanzenpark, with the iconic Schanzenturm (de) (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Altona Dahliengarten (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Seal of 1241 (replica) (from History of Hamburg) -
Promulgation of the Greater Hamburg Act in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 27 January 1937 (from History of Hamburg) -
Jenisch Park, one of Hamburg's many 18th-century English landscape parks along Elbchaussee (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
City state of Hamburg in 1890 (from History of Hamburg) -
Front view of the Museum of Ethnology in 2007 (from List of museums in Hamburg) -
The lion head door handles of Hauptkirche St. Petri date to the late 1300s. (from History of Hamburg) -
Italianized Römischer Garten (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Supreme Court of Hamburg (from Government of Hamburg) -
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Room of the Senat (from Government of Hamburg) -
Lohsepark, one of the new inner city urban parks developed within the new HafenCity district (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg) -
Hamburg in 1800 (from History of Hamburg)
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The Hamburg State Opera was founded in 1678, the current opera house was built in 1955.
Photo credit: Andreas Praefcke
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- ... that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned?
- ... that Hamburg's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
- ... that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are from the private collection of Peter Tamm, who started collecting when he was six years old?
- ... that 20th-century composers including Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis wrote music for cellist Siegfried Palm?
- ... that the Punch of the Hamburg Police has educated children in road traffic safety since 1948?
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