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Introduction
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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The Helmut Schmidt University (originally known as the University of the German Federal Armed Forces Hamburg), located in Hamburg, Germany, is an educational establishment that was founded in the year 1973. The university is exclusively for officers and candidate officers of the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces), hence its original name. However, despite the university's strict enforcement of this exclusiveness, a very small number of civilian students have been allowed enrollment to the school in previous years.
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- Image 1Police Staff Captain of the Hamburg police department on assignment at Hamburg city hall (from Government of Hamburg)
- Image 2Fire medal from 1843
- Image 3Sternschanzenpark, with the iconic Schanzenturm (de) (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 4Hanseatic Cross (from Government of Hamburg)
- Image 5Hamburg in 1800 (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 6Jenisch Park, one of Hamburg's many 18th-century English landscape parks along Elbchaussee (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 7Hamburg by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg (1588) (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 8Promulgation of the Greater Hamburg Act in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 27 January 1937 (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 9Lohsepark, one of the new inner city urban parks developed within the new HafenCity district (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 10Hamburg in 1680 (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 12City state of Hamburg in 1890 (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 13The first Rezeß of 1410 (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 14Room of the Senat (from Government of Hamburg)
- Image 15Seal of 1241 (replica) (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 16Buildings ruined by air raids (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 18The 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)
- Image 22Peter Tschentscher in 2011 (from Government of Hamburg)
- Image 23Altona Dahliengarten (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 24Supreme Court of Hamburg (from Government of Hamburg)
- Image 25Wilhelmsburg Inselpark (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 27The lion head door handles of Hauptkirche St. Petri date to the late 1300s. (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 28Museum der Arbeit main building (from List of museums in Hamburg)
- Image 29Altona Balkon, overlooking Hamburg Harbour at a height of 27 m (89 ft) above the Elbe (from List of parks and gardens in Hamburg)
- Image 30Hamburg in 1150, a 19th-century visualization (from History of Hamburg)
- Image 31Room of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (Diet) (from Government of Hamburg)
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Sammlung Falckenberg is a collection of modern and contemporary art in Hamburg. Since 2011 the collection is part of Deichtorhallen, one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography.
Photo credit: Dth-hamburg
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Did you know?
- ... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
- ... 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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