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Alliance with Dutch-Hanseatic war European Economic Merger New trade routes War with Breaking of Hansa's monopoly on the Baltic Community Treaty 1241 Hansa 15% of Danish trade profits Begining of the Hansa's decline 1958 1967

1159 1227 1266 1282 1356 1361 1370 1438 1441 1593 1669 1862 Establishment Lübeck became Charter operations joined Expansion Decline Last meeting End of the Hansa Rebuilding of Lübeck in England New trading product Hansa trading posts began to close Only 9 members attended Began to form guilds or Hansa Own rules Monopolisation the Baltic No taxes

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Effects The League organized and controled trade throughout Hanseatic trade route. Main trading route of the northern Europe by winning commercial privileges and monopolies and by establishing trading bases overseas. Hanseatic League in the Northern Europe. Coast of nothern Europe all the member towns.

1358-1862 Cologne ( River) ≈500 years Hamburg and (North Sea)

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Investment REGIONAL marinemaler-olaf-rahardt.com via Wikipedia.org Hanseatic flagship of Lübeck to uphold its EU ? long-privileged commercial position. WORLD

The Hanseatic League was a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe and flourished from the 1200 to 1500. The chief cities were Cologne on the Rhine River,

Hamburg and Bremen on the North Sea, and Lübeck on the Baltic. Each Deutsche Fotothek via Wikipedia.org city had its own legal system and a degree of political autonomy. Architectural heritage. Great cultural heritage : Wm Heinemann via Wikipedia.org was left, especially renowned for its Brick Gothic monuments .

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• In past history the transport of goods between different coun- • The Hanseatic Leagues aim was to • Due to scale advantages of the whole • The stragety was to create a super • The rising Swedish Empire had taken • The project is considered to have been the first super-regional tries has been more dangerous than today. The most common protect its ship convoys, goods and car- network they could offer better protec- regional economic community. control of much of the Baltic. economic community of the world. and fastest way to deliver goods was by sea.. avans by quelling pirates and brigands. tion to their traders. • Reasonable assurance against pirates • Denmark had regained control over its • The league established permanent commercial enclaves (Kon- • From the mid-13th century the association between German • The League received as much monies, • The economic and political influence and brigands was provided. own trade, the in Novgorod had tore) in a many foreign towns, for ecxample Flanders, closed, and the Kontor in had in Norway, Novgorod Russia and London etc. merchants became much more extensive and regularized. paid in taxes, and economical power of the league made it easy to control • Safe navigation was fostered by build- out of it as possible. trade routes and to block competition. become effectively moribund. • Around 1265 all northern German towns voted in favour of ing lighthouses and training pilots. • The Hanseatic League declined partly because it lacked any the “law of Lübeck” and agreed on common legislation for the • The league established a monopoly • The league organized and controlled • The individual cities which made up the centralized power defence of merchants and their goods. position of trade routes. trade throughout northern Europe by League also started to put self-inter- • After its collapse, cities still maintain the link to the Hanseatic winning commercial privileges, creating est before their common Hanseatic • To provide protection they founded a supra regional network League today. like Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen. monopolies and by establishing trading interests. called the Hansa league, which was held together by commen bases overseas. • The “new Hanse” fosters and develops business links, tourism economic interest under the idea of a free trade concept. • By the late 16th century, the League and cultural exchange. • This league is open to all former Hanse- had imploded and could no longer deal • In 1980, former Hanseatic League members established a atic League members and cities that with its own internal struggles. “new Hanse” in . once hosted a Hanseatic kontor. • Since 1980, 163 cities in 15 different have joined • The league’s principal trade consisted forces to form an active network of cities of staples which went from Russia and Poland to Flanders and England, which in return sent clothes and other manu- factured goods eastward to the Slavs.

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