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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: History<br><br>Jonny wrote:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span><font face="Courier New">Going back into
medieval history of this region I at first should mention the cities Bremen,
Hamburg and Stade- later all of them members of the Hanse- which stood in
contest to each other but had a good reason for common interests
as well: to keep the mouthes of the rivers Elbe and Weser safe, at first
against the Vikings, later against wreckers and pirates, to enable security
for their inhabitants and expanding trading.</font></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span><font face="Courier New">Stade soon lost its
status as an important trading post but became the administrative center of the
Archbisdom of Bremen (not identical with the city of Bremen but a suffragat, a
part of the Archbisdom of Cologne), whose holder also was Bishop of
Hamburg.</font></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span></span> </div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font face="Courier New">So we have three
main parties (*) playing the regional game: the big and rich cities
of Bremen and Hamburg and the Archbishop who roughly ruled the region
between Hamburg and Bremen south of the Elbe river and west of the Weser
river. </font></span><br><span></span></div><span><font face="Courier New"><br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We need to bear in mind that with loss of independence Hamburg, which previously seems to have seen only minor Saxon and pre-Saxon settlements, came to be set up as a front-line post of Frankish power. It served as a spearhead of Frankish interests at the edge of both Jutish Viking and Slavic Obodrite power domains, as a trading post as well as as a jump-off point for Christian missionaries to surrounding Saxon, Viking and Slavic communities, later to the whole of Scandinavia. It therefore came to be periodically sacked and destroyed by Vikings and Obodrites.<br>
<br>I wonder if unease in surrounding settlements regarding Hamburg's early role lingers and contributes to the usual divide between urban and rural, perhaps also regarding other cities, such as Bremen.<br><br>Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</font><br></font></span>
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