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Hamburg
Hamburg (/ˈhæmbɜːrɡ/; German pronunciation: [ˈhambʊʁk], local pronunciation [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç]; Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːx]), officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is also the thirteenth largest German state. Its population is over 1.7 million people, and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 5 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe.
The official name reflects its history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state, and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign state. Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the stringent civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten.
Hamburg is a transport hub and is an affluent city in Europe. It has become a media and industrial centre, with plants and facilities belonging to Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis. The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + Jahr and Spiegel-Verlag are pillars of the important media industry in Hamburg. Hamburg has been an important financial centre for centuries, and is the seat of the world's second oldest bank, Berenberg Bank.
Hamburg (surname)
Hamburg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hamburg (barque)
Hamburg was a three masted barque built in 1886 at Hantsport, Nova Scotia. She was the largest three masted barque ever built in Canada .
Background
Hamburg was one of the last of over a hundred large sailing vessels built by the Churchill family of Hantsport, led by Ezra Churchill. The barque was named after Hamburg, Germany, continuing a Churchill family tradition of naming ships after ports where they often sought cargoes.
Career
The barque's captain for almost her entire career was Andrew B. Coldwell. Hamburg worked mostly Atlantic trades but also made several long Pacific voyages, rounded Cape Horn many times and made one circumnavigation of the world in 1891. She called at her namesake port of Hamburg, Germany in 1895. She was converted to a gypsum barge in 1908 and served 17 years carrying gypsum under tow from the Minas Basin to New York. Her working career ended in 1925 when she was beached at Summerville, Hants County, Nova Scotia, just across and downriver from the site of her launch at Hantsport. In 1936, her massive wooden hull was burned to the waterline, leaving her lower hull partially covered and preserved in river silt.
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by Laakso
Hamburg Night
by: LaaksoIn the Hamburg night I´m walking at a time
When just the strange ones are awake.
I take a cab to the street where the action is,
The one they warned me about.
An importent DJ from Berlin speaks and orders drinks.
She drinks and talks and talks until she walks away,
No surprise I had to pay.
Someone calls me cutie, someone pulls my arm.
It´s a transvestite two meters tall
He pulls so hard I fall now he can take what he wants
But someone screaming makes him change his mind.
It´s a Spanish speaking prostitute
That's shouts at me you´re cute
So are you dear prostitute, we´re quite the same
But the difference is that I give myself away for free today.
I haven´t had enough sp I enter this rough
Punkrock place againg.
I paint pizzerie walls, I decorate, she says.
I feel our connection so does her boyfriend
The supermale bartender.
The bartender tells me ugly mords in German,
Still I understand.
I decide this to be the right time, I tie me shoes and leave.
The stars might be all clear elsewhere
But I need their guidance now.
At the step og the door that I thin is right