History UsefulNotes / HanseaticLeague

Its legacy lives on in a number of Dutch and German cities calling themselves "Hanseatic" (including the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland German states]] of Bremen and UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}, which have the official title of "Free Hanseatic City" and "Free and Hanseatic City" respectively). Many of those in present-day Germany have an extra H in their license plate codes (HB - *Hansestadt Bremen*, HH - *Hansestadt Hamburg*, HRO - *Hansestadt Rostock* and so on.) There is also the New Hanse, a voluntary association of cities that began in 1980. Membership in the New Hanse is open not only to former members of the old Hanse but also to former "kontore" (major trading partners) of the Hanse, with Novgorod being the largest of the kontore to join.

Its legacy lives on in a number of Dutch and German cities calling themselves "Hanseatic" (including the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland German states]] of Bremen and UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}, which have the official title of "Free Hanseatic City" and "Free and Hanseatic City" respectively). There is also the New Hanse, a voluntary association of cities that began in 1980. Membership in the New Hanse is open not only to former members of the old Hanse but also to former "kontore" (major trading partners) of the Hanse, with Novgorod being the largest of the kontore to join.

* Preictably, is mentioned in ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', though as the League is fading by then and the USE becomes the major military and economic power, it doesn't play much of a role.

* The ''Brave New World'' expansion to VideoGame/{{Civilization}} added the Hanse as a unique building for the German civilization, replacing the normal bank building and granting bonus production to trade routes between the city and city-states.

** Similarly, the Freie Hansestadt Bremen has the car registration "HB" and the Hansestadt Lübeck (which was a free city until it was absorbed into Schleswig-Holstein in 1937) "HL". After Reunification, four East German cities followed suit - Greifswald (HGW), Rostock (HRO), Stralsund (HST) and Wismar (HWI).

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Its legacy lives on in a number of Dutch and German cities calling themselves "Hanseatic" (including the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland German states]] of Bremen and UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}, which have the official title of "Free Hanseatic City" and "Free and Hanseatic City" respectively). There is also the New Hanse, a voluntary association of cities that began in 1980.

Topping out about at 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. This only got worse when the Reformation broke out and shattered the tenuous unity amongst the members. Once America was opened up and thus trade across the Atlantic grew more important than trade across the Baltic the league became an anarchronism, and the death knell was sounded with the outbreak of the ThirtyYearsWar if not UsefulNotes/TheEightyYearsWar. For decades all of Northern Germany became the rope of a brutal tug of tug of war, and the Hanse members were no different. Caught between the Hanse's traditional Dutch, Scandinavian, and British trade rivals on one side and a Habsburg Empire trying to subjugate all the German states on the other, the rich but protectionist, divided, and weak Hansa became TheChewToy of countless armies and mercenaries while its' members split to one side or the other.

The league outlasted the war and managed to limp on for a few more years, but the last diet was held in 1669 and barely anybody showed up for the funeral. In 1862 somebody in what was then the budding GermanEmpire noticed the casket hadn't been buried and formally dissolved the dead league.

Its legacy lives on in a number of Dutch and German cities calling themselves "Hanseatic" (including the [[TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland German states]] of Bremen and UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}, which have the official title of "Free Hanseatic City" and "Free and Hanseatic City" respectively). There is also the New Hanse, a voluntary association of cities that began in 1980.

* An organisation of the same name appears in ''Literature/PerryRhodan'', although it's called "Cosmic House" in English translation. It is literally the UsefulNotes/HanseaticLeague InSpace.

* The book ''{{Metro 2033}}'' features the Commonwealth of the Stations of the Ring Line who are called the Hansa/ the Hanse by everybody else due to their hypercapitalistic and decentralized nature.
* An organisation of the same name appears in ''Literature/PerryRhodan'', although it's called "Cosmic House" in English translation. It is literally the HanseaticLeague InSpace.

* There's an AmusementPark near Sierksdorf north of Lübeck named Hansa-Park (originally Hansaland). Over the last years, it added more and more HanseaticLeague-themed attractions.

* The most well-known German brand of band-aid is called ''Hansaplast''.

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Topping out about at 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. This only got worse when the Reformation broke out and shattered the tenuous unity amongst the members. Once America was opened up and thus trade across the Atlantic grew more important than trade across the Baltic the league became an anarchronism, and the death knell was sounded with the outbreak of the ThirtyYearsWar if not the EightyYearsWar. For decades all of Northern Germany became the rope of a brutal tug of tug of war, and the Hanse members were no different. Caught between the Hanse's traditional Dutch, Scandinavian, and British trade rivals on one side and a Habsburg Empire trying to subjugate all the German states on the other, the rich but protectionist, divided, and weak Hansa became TheChewToy of countless armies and mercenaries while its' members split to one side or the other.

Nothing to do with sports, the Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of cities centred around the Baltic and North Sea coasts of Europe from the 13th century to the 17th century, specifically Northern Germany, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania's modern borders. It began with an alliance between {{UsefulNotes/Hamburg}} and Lübeck, other key locations included Lüneburg,

Nothing to do with sports, the Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of cities centred around the Baltic and North Sea coasts of Europe from the 13th century to the 17th century, specifically Northern Germany, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania's modern borders. It began with an alliance between Hamburg and Lübeck, other key locations included Lüneburg,

* A number of German cities have neighborhoods called the ''Hanseviertel''. The best known is one in Berlin, which consists of high-rise apartment buildings designed by internationally known architects and built in 1955-1960 as a showcase for post-war architecture.

* Rostock's main football team is called FC Hansa Rostock. Curiously, it is actually the most successful among the football teams from East Germany, on which it spent a decade playing at the Bundesliga.

Topping out about at 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. This only got worse when the Reformation broke out and shattered the tenuous unity amongst the members. Once America was opened up and thus trade across the Atlantic grew more important than trade across the Baltic the league became an anarchronism, and the death knell was sounded with the outbreak of the ThirtyYearsWar if not the EightyYearsWar. For decades all of Northern Germany became the rope of a brutal tug of tug of war, and the Hanse members were no different. Caught between the Hanse's traditional Dutch, Scandinavian, and British trade rivals on one side and a Habsburg Empire trying to subjugate all the German states on the other, the rich but protectionist, divided, and weak Hansa because TheChewToy of countless armies and mercenaries while its' members split to one side or the other.

Topping out about at 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. This only got worse when the Reformation broke out and shattered the tenuous unity amongst the members. Once America was opened up and thus trade across the Atlantic grew more important than trade across the Baltic the league became an anarchronism, and and the death knell was sounded with the outbreak of the ThirtyYearsWar if not the EightyYearsWar. For decades all of Northern Germany became the rope of a brutal tug of tug of war, and the Hanse members were no different. Caught between the Hanse's traditional Dutch, Scandinavian, and British trade rivals on one side and a Habsburg Empire trying to subjugate all the German states on the other, the rich but protectionist, divided, and weak Hansa because TheChewToy of countless armies and mercenaries while its' members split to one side or the other.

Topping out about at 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. Once America was opened up and thus trade across the Atlantic grew more important than trade across the Baltic, the death knell was sounded and the last diet was held in 1669.

* The League is also playable in sister game ''[[CrusaderKings Crusader Kings 2]]'' (with the ''The Republic'' DLC. The Hansa was a league of merchant ''republics'', after all).

* The League, under the name "The Hansa", is a playable country in the ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'' games.
* The League is also playable in sister game ''[[CrusaderKings Crusader Kings 2]]''

* The League, under the name "The Hansa", is a playable country in ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis 3''.

* Rostock's main football team is called Hansa Rostock. Curiously, it is actually the most successful among the football teams from East Germany, on which it spent a decade playing at the Bundesliga

Topping out about 100 cities in the 14th century, the League gradually declined as its lack of central government (partly to avoid legal problems against a single entity) caused a problem against competition from Scandinavian merchants and the Dutch. Once America was opened up, the death knell was sounded and the last diet was held in 1669.