49 Facts About Hamburg Germany

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One of Germany's 16 federated states, Hamburg is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south.

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Hamburg Germany is Europe's third largest port, after Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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Hamburg Germany is a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions.

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Hamburg Germany is known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows.

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Hamburg Germany is at a sheltered natural harbour on the southern fanning-out of the Jutland Peninsula, between Continental Europe to the south and Scandinavia to the north, with the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the northeast.

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Hamburg Germany has an oceanic climate, influenced by its proximity to the coast and maritime influences that originate over the Atlantic Ocean.

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The location in the north of Hamburg Germany provides extremes greater than typical marine climates, but definitely in the category due to the prevailing westerlies.

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Name Hamburg Germany comes from the first permanent building on the site, a castle which the Emperor Charlemagne ordered constructed in AD 808.

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Hamburg Germany was briefly annexed by Napoleon I to the First French Empire .

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10.

Hamburg Germany re-assumed its pre-1811 status as a city-state in 1814.

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11.

Hamburg Germany acceded to the German Customs Union or Zollverein in 1888, the last of the German states to join.

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Hamburg Germany was the departure port for many Germans and Eastern Europeans to emigrate to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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13.

Inner German border – only 50 kilometres east of Hamburg Germany – separated the city from most of its hinterland and reduced Hamburg Germany's global trade.

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14.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of several Central European and Baltic countries into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg Germany has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

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15.

Hamburg Germany is made up of seven boroughs and subdivided into 104 quarters .

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The last large annexation was done through the Greater Hamburg Germany Act of 1937, when the cities Altona, Harburg and Wandsbek were merged into the state of Hamburg Germany.

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Hamburg Germany-Mitte covers mostly the urban centre of the city and consists of the quarters Billbrook, Billstedt, Borgfelde, Finkenwerder, HafenCity, Hamm, Hammerbrook, Horn, Kleiner Grasbrook, Neuwerk, Rothenburgsort, St Georg, St Pauli, Steinwerder, Veddel, Waltershof and Wilhelmsburg.

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Hamburg Germany-Nord contains the quarters Alsterdorf, Barmbek-Nord, Barmbek-Sud, Dulsberg, Eppendorf, Fuhlsbuttel, Groß Borstel, Hoheluft-Ost, Hohenfelde, Langenhorn, Ohlsdorf with Ohlsdorf cemetery, Uhlenhorst and Winterhude.

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19.

Hamburg Germany has more bridges inside its city limits than any other city in the world.

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20.

Botanischer Garten Hamburg Germany is a modern botanical garden maintained by the University of Hamburg Germany.

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21.

In 2014 Hamburg Germany celebrated a birthday of park culture, where many parks were reconstructed and cleaned up.

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22.

Hamburg Germany has more than 40 theatres, 60 museums and 100 music venues and clubs.

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23.

Hamburg Germany has entered the European Green Capital Award scheme, and was awarded the title of European Green Capital for 2011.

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24.

Hamburg Germany is the birthplace of Johannes Brahms, who spent his formative early years in the city, and the birthplace and home of the famous waltz composer Oscar Fetras, who wrote the well-known "Mondnacht auf der Alster" waltz.

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Hamburg Germany was an important center of rock music in the early 1960s.

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26.

One of the members of the band Frumpy was the Hamburg Germany-born singer and composer Inga Rumpf.

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27.

The meeting point of the Hamburg Germany School was long considered to be the Golden Pudel Club in Altona's old town near the Fischmarkt.

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28.

Hamburg Germany is home to many music labels, music distributors and publishers.

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29.

Hamburg Germany has a vibrant psychedelic trance community, with record labels such as Spirit Zone.

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30.

Hamburg Germany's festivals include the Elbjazz Festival, which takes place 2 days a year in Hamburg Germany's harbor and HafenCity.

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31.

Hamburg Germany has long been a centre of alternative music and counter-culture movements.

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32.

Hamburg Germany, along with Seattle and Toulouse, is an important location of the civil aerospace industry.

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33.

Typical Hamburg Germany visit includes a tour of the city hall and the grand church St Michaelis, and visiting the old warehouse district and the harbour promenade .

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34.

The Norddeutscher Rundfunk which includes the television station NDR Fernsehen is based in Hamburg Germany, including the very popular news program Tagesschau, as are the commercial television station Hamburg Germany 1, the Christian television station Bibel TV and the civil media outlet Tide TV.

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35.

Some of Hamburg Germany's largest publishing companies, Axel Springer AG, Gruner + Jahr, Bauer Media Group are located in the city.

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36.

Hamburg Germany was one of the locations for the James Bond series film Tomorrow Never Dies.

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37.

Hamburg Germany was shown in An American Tail where Fievel Mousekewitz and his family immigrate to America in the hopes to escape cats.

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38.

Hamburg Germany is a major transportation hub, connected to four Autobahnen and the most important railway junction on the route to Scandinavia.

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39.

Hamburg Germany has no trams or trolleybuses, but has hydrogen-fueled buses.

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40.

Hamburg Germany is a secondary hub for Lufthansa, which is the largest carrier at the airport, and the airline operates one of its biggest Lufthansa Technik maintenance facilities there.

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41.

VERA Klarschlammverbrennung uses the biosolids of the Hamburg Germany wastewater treatment plant; the Pumpspeicherwerk Geesthacht is a pump storage power plant and a solid waste combustion power station is Mullverwertung Borsigstraße.

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42.

In June 2019 City of Hamburg Germany introduced a law governing the phasing out of coal based thermal and electric energy production .

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43.

Hamburg Germany Ministry for Environment and Energy in 2020 announced a partnership with Namibia, which is a potential supplier of woody biomass from encroacher bush as replacement of coal.

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44.

BCJ Hamburg Germany played in the Basketball Bundesliga from 1999 to 2001.

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45.

Hamburg Germany is the nation's field hockey capital and dominates the men's as well as the women's Bundesliga.

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46.

The Hamburg Warriors are part of the Harvestehuder Tennis- und Hockey-Club e V .

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47.

Hamburg Germany Sea Devils is a team of European League of Football which is a planned professional league, that is set to become the first fully professional league in Europe since the demise of NFL Europe.

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48.

Besides Hamburg Germany owns the famous harness racing track "Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld".

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49.

The Hamburg Marathon is the biggest marathon in Germany after Berlin's.

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