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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: History

Jonny wrote:

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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