{"id":33785,"date":"2022-12-21T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadt-land-niederrhein.de\/saison\/auf-den-spuren-der-hanse\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:56:56","slug":"on-the-trail-of-the-hansa","status":"publish","type":"season","link":"https:\/\/stadt-land-niederrhein.de\/en\/saison\/on-the-trail-of-the-hansa\/","title":{"rendered":"On the trail of the Hansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669660857754{margin-bottom: 90px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-offset-3 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;lead text-center&#8221;]Trading across seas: that was traders\u2019 recipe for success, primarily around the Baltic and North Sea. They founded the Hanseatic League (or Hansa) in the Middle Ages and were also successful inland. Towns on the Lower Rhine and their kontors (trading posts) also belonged to the legendary association of merchants. Traces of this era are still visible to this day in magnificent trading houses and market squares. 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L\u00fcbeck is considered the unofficial capital city of the Hansa. Car licence plates still make reference to the Hanseatic League: HL stands for Hansestadt L\u00fcbeck, HH for Hansestadt Hamburg and HB for Hansestadt Bremen. Neuss, Wesel, Kalkar and Grieth in the Lower Rhine as well as Emmerich am Rhein cannot be recognised as Hanseatic towns on licence plates, but it\u2019s still visible in their townscapes. Such as the merchant\u2019s house, \u2018Em schwatte P\u00e4d\u2019, in Neuss, the historic town hall on the Gro\u00dfer Markt in Wesel, the stepped gable buildings in Kalkar and the Rhine Promenade in Emmerich am Rhein.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Neuss, Wesel, Kalkar, Grieth and Emmerich am Rhein joined together to form the Rhenish Hanseatic League. They also belong to the New Hanseatic League, which brought together more than 200 member cities in 16 European countries in the Dutch city of Zwolle in 1980. 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