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Hanseatic route
Flemish Street

Travelogue
During the 12th to the 16th century, many cities from Germany and the Netherlands worked closely together. Together they tried to trade as much as possible and to earn money from the merchants from Russia and Scandinavia. These cities worked together in a kind of alliance also called the Hanseatic League. In addition to Lübeck, there are many more Hanseatic cities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Famous Hanseatic cities from the Netherlands were Groningen, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Doesburg, Hattem, Antwerp and Bruges. In Germany Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen.
The Hanseatic cities used commercial contracts which were drawn up according to Lübeck law when trading. With this law, modern for that time, the agreements between the traders and merchants were tested against the case law and the fulfillment of the agreement could be enforced in this way by a recognized court.
City walk. https://www.routeyou.com/nl-de/route/view/6569191/recreatieve-wandelroute/stadswandel-lubeck-ontdek-de-fortingenstad-aan-de-trave
Photo Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Hanseatic Museum
Source: https://www.allesoverduitsland.nl/steden/lubeck/


During the 12th to the 16th century, many cities from Germany and the Netherlands worked closely together. Together they tried to trade as much as possible and to earn money from the merchants from Russia and Scandinavia. These cities worked together in a kind of alliance also called the Hanseatic League. In addition to Lübeck, there are many more Hanseatic cities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Famous Hanseatic cities from the Netherlands were Groningen, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Doesburg, Hattem, Antwerp and Bruges. In Germany Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen.
The Hanseatic cities used commercial contracts which were drawn up according to Lübeck law when trading. With this law, modern for that time, the agreements between the traders and merchants were tested against the case law and the fulfillment of the agreement could be enforced in this way by a recognized court.
City walk. https://www.routeyou.com/nl-de/route/view/6569191/recreatieve-wandelroute/stadswandel-lubeck-ontdek-de-fortingenstad-aan-de-trave
Photo Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Hanseatic Museum
Source: https://www.allesoverduitsland.nl/steden/lubeck/
Products from Hamburg and its hinterland, which goods the Hanseatic League exported to Flanders, among others. These included pitch and wood, especially wainscot or ship's wood. Furthermore, melevate and molden or lucghen (bakers' kneading baking), ashes, necessary for cleaning the wole, finally grains and metals. was a much more common drink at that time than it is today. In the thirteenth century Bremen beer had priority in Flanders, in the course of the fourteenth century it was pushed out of the market by the "Oriental" or Hamburg beer. in the fourteenth century one of the most important branches of existence for the Hamburgers.
An old Hanseatic proverb calls Hamburg the 'brewer house of the Hanseatic League. Large quantities of Oriental beer were exported to Flanders. As late as 1436, an English mocking poet calls the Orientals indispensable for Flanders, if only because of their beer.
Guided tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/7dd1-urbirun-hamburg-highlights/en
Photo: Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Source: Pixabay

Products from Hamburg and its hinterland, which goods the Hanseatic League exported to Flanders, among others. These included pitch and wood, especially wainscot or ship's wood. Furthermore, melevate and molden or lucghen (bakers' kneading baking), ashes, necessary for cleaning the wole, finally grains and metals. was a much more common drink at that time than it is today. In the thirteenth century Bremen beer had priority in Flanders, in the course of the fourteenth century it was pushed out of the market by the "Oriental" or Hamburg beer. in the fourteenth century one of the most important branches of existence for the Hamburgers.
An old Hanseatic proverb calls Hamburg the 'brewer house of the Hanseatic League. Large quantities of Oriental beer were exported to Flanders. As late as 1436, an English mocking poet calls the Orientals indispensable for Flanders, if only because of their beer.
Guided tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/7dd1-urbirun-hamburg-highlights/en
Photo: Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Source: Pixabay
Stade is perhaps the oldest city in Northern Germany! In 1000 BC people already settled here. In the 8th century BC a permanent settlement with a harbor was established and in 1209 Stade received city rights.
The city became an administrative center under Swedish rule (1645-1712), maintained a garrison (army) and built an impressive fortress.
The historic center of the city is located within the former city wall on Schwinge Island. Formerly, because when the city started to fill up at the end of the 19th century, the walls were demolished and converted into green strips.
Stade was a prosperous "Hanseatic city" in the Middle Ages
Source: https://thetraveltester.com/nl/wat-is-een-hanzestad/

Stade is perhaps the oldest city in Northern Germany! In 1000 BC people already settled here. In the 8th century BC a permanent settlement with a harbor was established and in 1209 Stade received city rights.
The city became an administrative center under Swedish rule (1645-1712), maintained a garrison (army) and built an impressive fortress.
The historic center of the city is located within the former city wall on Schwinge Island. Formerly, because when the city started to fill up at the end of the 19th century, the walls were demolished and converted into green strips.
Stade was a prosperous "Hanseatic city" in the Middle Ages
Source: https://thetraveltester.com/nl/wat-is-een-hanzestad/
Tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/1d6c-hello-bremen/en
Photo: Hanseatic city of Bremen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(stad)

Tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/1d6c-hello-bremen/en
Photo: Hanseatic city of Bremen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(stad)
In 1453, Count Gerhard van Oldenburg had twenty-five merchants from Lübeck, Hamburg and Brunswick, who were undoubtedly on their way to the market of Antwerp with their goods, imprisoned in Delmenhorst. This Oldenburg count, brother of King Christian of Denmark, seems in general to have acted as a real robber baron and to have hindered trade to and from Flanders to a great extent in his regions.
Source: De Hanze en Vlaanderen 1950 by Jozef Hubert Beuken publisher Ernest van Aelst in Maastricht
In 1453, Count Gerhard van Oldenburg had twenty-five merchants from Lübeck, Hamburg and Brunswick, who were undoubtedly on their way to the market of Antwerp with their goods, imprisoned in Delmenhorst. This Oldenburg count, brother of King Christian of Denmark, seems in general to have acted as a real robber baron and to have hindered trade to and from Flanders to a great extent in his regions.
Source: De Hanze en Vlaanderen 1950 by Jozef Hubert Beuken publisher Ernest van Aelst in Maastricht
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ningen
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ningen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
Probably at the end of the 13th century, Deventer joined the Hanseatic League. At the height of the Hanseatic League in the mid-15th century, a large network of regular trade contacts existed from the Baltic States to England and from Norway deep into Austria .
The city was a port city. Large ships could navigate the IJssel inland as far as Deventer and moor at the quay. The Schipbeek was made navigable for small river ships as far as Münsterland by order of the city. It used to flow into the IJssel on the south side of the city and formed a natural harbor there. Overseas trade contacts existed in particular with Norwegian Bergen, for stockfish, and with Skåne (pronounced "Skoone"), now southern Sweden, but at that time Danish, where herring came from. That is why Deventer people used to be called stockfish or Schoonevaarders. There was also a lot of trade with the German Rhineland, the names "De Wezel" and "die Köln" in the facade of the Assenstraat 10 building are still reminders of this. Until the end of the Middle Ages in the area that is now the Netherlands, the city was a prominent trading city with German imperial privileges, such as the minting of gold coins.
In 1334 the city was hit by a major city fire.
In 1456 the Overstichtse Hanseatic cities resisted the candidate for the bishop's see of Utrecht proposed by the Burgundians. The Burgundian dukes, and their representatives/relatives, advocated a more centralized policy in which the cities could assert their privileges less. The Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good marched from Utrecht to Deventer with an army. After a short siege, the duke was able to impose his will on the city, and with it on the other Oversticht cities. It was the beginning of the decline of the power of the Hanseatic League in the northern Netherlands. From 1495, the city was still allowed to call itself a 'free imperial city', just like Zwolle and Kampen. The administrators of Deventer saw reason to adorn the city coat of arms with the German eagle and the imperial crown.
The city reached its economic peak at the end of the 15th century. At that time, five large markets were held every year, each lasting weeks and for which there was interest far beyond the Netherlands. Deventer was a center for internationally active merchants. At the beginning of the 16th century, the economic center of gravity in the northern Netherlands would shift definitively to the cities in Holland and Zeeland.
Audio tour Hanseatic city of Deventer. https://izi.travel/nl/a3f4-audiotour-hanzestad-deventer-3-4-km-ijsselroute-hanzetour-com/nl
Source: Wikipedia

Probably at the end of the 13th century, Deventer joined the Hanseatic League. At the height of the Hanseatic League in the mid-15th century, a large network of regular trade contacts existed from the Baltic States to England and from Norway deep into Austria .
The city was a port city. Large ships could navigate the IJssel inland as far as Deventer and moor at the quay. The Schipbeek was made navigable for small river ships as far as Münsterland by order of the city. It used to flow into the IJssel on the south side of the city and formed a natural harbor there. Overseas trade contacts existed in particular with Norwegian Bergen, for stockfish, and with Skåne (pronounced "Skoone"), now southern Sweden, but at that time Danish, where herring came from. That is why Deventer people used to be called stockfish or Schoonevaarders. There was also a lot of trade with the German Rhineland, the names "De Wezel" and "die Köln" in the facade of the Assenstraat 10 building are still reminders of this. Until the end of the Middle Ages in the area that is now the Netherlands, the city was a prominent trading city with German imperial privileges, such as the minting of gold coins.
In 1334 the city was hit by a major city fire.
In 1456 the Overstichtse Hanseatic cities resisted the candidate for the bishop's see of Utrecht proposed by the Burgundians. The Burgundian dukes, and their representatives/relatives, advocated a more centralized policy in which the cities could assert their privileges less. The Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good marched from Utrecht to Deventer with an army. After a short siege, the duke was able to impose his will on the city, and with it on the other Oversticht cities. It was the beginning of the decline of the power of the Hanseatic League in the northern Netherlands. From 1495, the city was still allowed to call itself a 'free imperial city', just like Zwolle and Kampen. The administrators of Deventer saw reason to adorn the city coat of arms with the German eagle and the imperial crown.
The city reached its economic peak at the end of the 15th century. At that time, five large markets were held every year, each lasting weeks and for which there was interest far beyond the Netherlands. Deventer was a center for internationally active merchants. At the beginning of the 16th century, the economic center of gravity in the northern Netherlands would shift definitively to the cities in Holland and Zeeland.
Audio tour Hanseatic city of Deventer. https://izi.travel/nl/a3f4-audiotour-hanzestad-deventer-3-4-km-ijsselroute-hanzetour-com/nl
Source: Wikipedia
The history of Arnhem is old and eventful. In the ninth century there was a church on that site, which belonged to the St. Salvatore abbey in Prüm (Germany). Three centuries later, the Count of Gelre levied tolls and Arnhem received city rights. For some time Arnhem was a member of the Hanze. Arnhem became an important city in the sixteenth century in particular, after Emperor Charles V designated the city as the de facto capital and government center of Gelderland.
Walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/545a-arnhem-back-to-toen/nl
Source: https://www.absolutefacts.nl/historie/data/history-arnhem.htm
Photo source: Gelders archive

The history of Arnhem is old and eventful. In the ninth century there was a church on that site, which belonged to the St. Salvatore abbey in Prüm (Germany). Three centuries later, the Count of Gelre levied tolls and Arnhem received city rights. For some time Arnhem was a member of the Hanze. Arnhem became an important city in the sixteenth century in particular, after Emperor Charles V designated the city as the de facto capital and government center of Gelderland.
Walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/545a-arnhem-back-to-toen/nl
Source: https://www.absolutefacts.nl/historie/data/history-arnhem.htm
Photo source: Gelders archive
Source photo British Library

Source photo British Library
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/987a-puur-s-hertogenbosch/nl
Between Helvoirt and Haaren an actual part of the Vlamenschenstraat was preserved. As the name Antwerpse Baan tells us, this is a remnant of the old, medieval trade route between 's-Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. At the time, merchants preferred transport by water, but there was no suitable shipping route from Den Bosch in a southwesterly direction. The freight carts to Antwerp drove from the Vughterpoort on dirt roads to Helvoirt, Tilburg, Turnhout and beyond.
Source: https://www.denbosch-cultuurstad.nl/Category/Geschiedenis_van_Den_Bosch
Photo source: Detail from Ludovico Guicciardini: Omnium Belgi Sive Inferioris Germaniae. Arnhem, Johannes Jansz, 1616

City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/987a-puur-s-hertogenbosch/nl
Between Helvoirt and Haaren an actual part of the Vlamenschenstraat was preserved. As the name Antwerpse Baan tells us, this is a remnant of the old, medieval trade route between 's-Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. At the time, merchants preferred transport by water, but there was no suitable shipping route from Den Bosch in a southwesterly direction. The freight carts to Antwerp drove from the Vughterpoort on dirt roads to Helvoirt, Tilburg, Turnhout and beyond.
Source: https://www.denbosch-cultuurstad.nl/Category/Geschiedenis_van_Den_Bosch
Photo source: Detail from Ludovico Guicciardini: Omnium Belgi Sive Inferioris Germaniae. Arnhem, Johannes Jansz, 1616
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/57ac-04-city walk-tilburg-around-heuvel-old-market/nl
Picture source: Wikipedia

City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/57ac-04-city walk-tilburg-around-heuvel-old-market/nl
Picture source: Wikipedia
Photo: Hoogstraten town hall
Source: Wikipedia

Photo: Hoogstraten town hall
Source: Wikipedia
In the fifteenth century, the German Hanseatic League already owned two city buildings in Antwerp, but they quickly proved too small.
After difficult negotiations between the Hanseatic League and the city council, both decided shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century to build the Hansa House. The architect Cornelis Floris De Vriendt was appointed for this purpose. The result was a building in late Renaissance palazzo style with a rectangular floor plan of 80 by 62 meters and three storeys. The basement and ground floors were arranged as warehouses, while the upper floors functioned as work and living spaces for the merchants.
After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the city lost its function as a trading metropolis. The Hansahuis no longer functioned as a trading palace, but successively became a warehouse, barracks, military hospital and Protestant church. Until 1863 the building remained the property of the Hanseatic cities, after which it was transferred to the Belgian state. In 1893 the Hansahuis was destroyed by a fire.
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/1955-antwerpen/nl
Photo: Hansa House
Source: https://www.antwerpendoorgrond.be/nl/verforte_stad/info/de_hanze_in_antwerpen#:~:text=Eigenlijk%20is%20Antwerp%20never%20een,het%20Hansahuis%20in%20de%20Nieuwstad.
Photo source: www.felixarchief.be,

In the fifteenth century, the German Hanseatic League already owned two city buildings in Antwerp, but they quickly proved too small.
After difficult negotiations between the Hanseatic League and the city council, both decided shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century to build the Hansa House. The architect Cornelis Floris De Vriendt was appointed for this purpose. The result was a building in late Renaissance palazzo style with a rectangular floor plan of 80 by 62 meters and three storeys. The basement and ground floors were arranged as warehouses, while the upper floors functioned as work and living spaces for the merchants.
After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the city lost its function as a trading metropolis. The Hansahuis no longer functioned as a trading palace, but successively became a warehouse, barracks, military hospital and Protestant church. Until 1863 the building remained the property of the Hanseatic cities, after which it was transferred to the Belgian state. In 1893 the Hansahuis was destroyed by a fire.
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/1955-antwerpen/nl
Photo: Hansa House
Source: https://www.antwerpendoorgrond.be/nl/verforte_stad/info/de_hanze_in_antwerpen#:~:text=Eigenlijk%20is%20Antwerp%20never%20een,het%20Hansahuis%20in%20de%20Nieuwstad.
Photo source: www.felixarchief.be,
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/2983-fast-4-ward-eeklo-az-alma-6-3km/nl
Photo town hall Eeklo
Source: Wikipedia

City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/2983-fast-4-ward-eeklo-az-alma-6-3km/nl
Photo town hall Eeklo
Source: Wikipedia
Wir sind ein Handellreibend Volk, mein König.
Was köstlich wächst in allen Himmelsstrichen.
Wird ausgestellt zur Schau und zum Genuss
Auf unerm Markt zu Bruegg.
(Schalfer. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Third Act, Third Scene).
It was mainly in the period from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century that Bruges developed into the great trading metropolis of Northwest Europe. An extremely favorable location from a mercantile point of view and the highly sought-after products of an industry famous throughout Europe had created the foundations for the flourishing of a truly international commercial life.
The street names of Bruges already prove to us that the Flemish Emporium displayed a cosmopolitan aspect like no other city north of the Alps. Since the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, Bruges had streets named after the citizens of Lübeck (since 1282), of Hamburg (since 1306).
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/3ac0-discover-the-center-of-bruges/en
Photo: Hanzekantoor Bruges
Source photo Wikipedia

Wir sind ein Handellreibend Volk, mein König.
Was köstlich wächst in allen Himmelsstrichen.
Wird ausgestellt zur Schau und zum Genuss
Auf unerm Markt zu Bruegg.
(Schalfer. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Third Act, Third Scene).
It was mainly in the period from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century that Bruges developed into the great trading metropolis of Northwest Europe. An extremely favorable location from a mercantile point of view and the highly sought-after products of an industry famous throughout Europe had created the foundations for the flourishing of a truly international commercial life.
The street names of Bruges already prove to us that the Flemish Emporium displayed a cosmopolitan aspect like no other city north of the Alps. Since the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, Bruges had streets named after the citizens of Lübeck (since 1282), of Hamburg (since 1306).
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/3ac0-discover-the-center-of-bruges/en
Photo: Hanzekantoor Bruges
Source photo Wikipedia
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Travelogue
During the 12th to the 16th century, many cities from Germany and the Netherlands worked closely together. Together they tried to trade as much as possible and to earn money from the merchants from Russia and Scandinavia. These cities worked together in a kind of alliance also called the Hanseatic League. In addition to Lübeck, there are many more Hanseatic cities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Famous Hanseatic cities from the Netherlands were Groningen, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Doesburg, Hattem, Antwerp and Bruges. In Germany Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen.
The Hanseatic cities used commercial contracts which were drawn up according to Lübeck law when trading. With this law, modern for that time, the agreements between the traders and merchants were tested against the case law and the fulfillment of the agreement could be enforced in this way by a recognized court.
City walk. https://www.routeyou.com/nl-de/route/view/6569191/recreatieve-wandelroute/stadswandel-lubeck-ontdek-de-fortingenstad-aan-de-trave
Photo Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Hanseatic Museum
Source: https://www.allesoverduitsland.nl/steden/lubeck/


During the 12th to the 16th century, many cities from Germany and the Netherlands worked closely together. Together they tried to trade as much as possible and to earn money from the merchants from Russia and Scandinavia. These cities worked together in a kind of alliance also called the Hanseatic League. In addition to Lübeck, there are many more Hanseatic cities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Famous Hanseatic cities from the Netherlands were Groningen, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Doesburg, Hattem, Antwerp and Bruges. In Germany Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen.
The Hanseatic cities used commercial contracts which were drawn up according to Lübeck law when trading. With this law, modern for that time, the agreements between the traders and merchants were tested against the case law and the fulfillment of the agreement could be enforced in this way by a recognized court.
City walk. https://www.routeyou.com/nl-de/route/view/6569191/recreatieve-wandelroute/stadswandel-lubeck-ontdek-de-fortingenstad-aan-de-trave
Photo Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Hanseatic Museum
Source: https://www.allesoverduitsland.nl/steden/lubeck/
Products from Hamburg and its hinterland, which goods the Hanseatic League exported to Flanders, among others. These included pitch and wood, especially wainscot or ship's wood. Furthermore, melevate and molden or lucghen (bakers' kneading baking), ashes, necessary for cleaning the wole, finally grains and metals. was a much more common drink at that time than it is today. In the thirteenth century Bremen beer had priority in Flanders, in the course of the fourteenth century it was pushed out of the market by the "Oriental" or Hamburg beer. in the fourteenth century one of the most important branches of existence for the Hamburgers.
An old Hanseatic proverb calls Hamburg the 'brewer house of the Hanseatic League. Large quantities of Oriental beer were exported to Flanders. As late as 1436, an English mocking poet calls the Orientals indispensable for Flanders, if only because of their beer.
Guided tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/7dd1-urbirun-hamburg-highlights/en
Photo: Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Source: Pixabay

Products from Hamburg and its hinterland, which goods the Hanseatic League exported to Flanders, among others. These included pitch and wood, especially wainscot or ship's wood. Furthermore, melevate and molden or lucghen (bakers' kneading baking), ashes, necessary for cleaning the wole, finally grains and metals. was a much more common drink at that time than it is today. In the thirteenth century Bremen beer had priority in Flanders, in the course of the fourteenth century it was pushed out of the market by the "Oriental" or Hamburg beer. in the fourteenth century one of the most important branches of existence for the Hamburgers.
An old Hanseatic proverb calls Hamburg the 'brewer house of the Hanseatic League. Large quantities of Oriental beer were exported to Flanders. As late as 1436, an English mocking poet calls the Orientals indispensable for Flanders, if only because of their beer.
Guided tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/7dd1-urbirun-hamburg-highlights/en
Photo: Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Source: Pixabay
Stade is perhaps the oldest city in Northern Germany! In 1000 BC people already settled here. In the 8th century BC a permanent settlement with a harbor was established and in 1209 Stade received city rights.
The city became an administrative center under Swedish rule (1645-1712), maintained a garrison (army) and built an impressive fortress.
The historic center of the city is located within the former city wall on Schwinge Island. Formerly, because when the city started to fill up at the end of the 19th century, the walls were demolished and converted into green strips.
Stade was a prosperous "Hanseatic city" in the Middle Ages
Source: https://thetraveltester.com/nl/wat-is-een-hanzestad/

Stade is perhaps the oldest city in Northern Germany! In 1000 BC people already settled here. In the 8th century BC a permanent settlement with a harbor was established and in 1209 Stade received city rights.
The city became an administrative center under Swedish rule (1645-1712), maintained a garrison (army) and built an impressive fortress.
The historic center of the city is located within the former city wall on Schwinge Island. Formerly, because when the city started to fill up at the end of the 19th century, the walls were demolished and converted into green strips.
Stade was a prosperous "Hanseatic city" in the Middle Ages
Source: https://thetraveltester.com/nl/wat-is-een-hanzestad/
Tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/1d6c-hello-bremen/en
Photo: Hanseatic city of Bremen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(stad)

Tour with audio support https://izi.travel/nl/1d6c-hello-bremen/en
Photo: Hanseatic city of Bremen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(stad)
In 1453, Count Gerhard van Oldenburg had twenty-five merchants from Lübeck, Hamburg and Brunswick, who were undoubtedly on their way to the market of Antwerp with their goods, imprisoned in Delmenhorst. This Oldenburg count, brother of King Christian of Denmark, seems in general to have acted as a real robber baron and to have hindered trade to and from Flanders to a great extent in his regions.
Source: De Hanze en Vlaanderen 1950 by Jozef Hubert Beuken publisher Ernest van Aelst in Maastricht
In 1453, Count Gerhard van Oldenburg had twenty-five merchants from Lübeck, Hamburg and Brunswick, who were undoubtedly on their way to the market of Antwerp with their goods, imprisoned in Delmenhorst. This Oldenburg count, brother of King Christian of Denmark, seems in general to have acted as a real robber baron and to have hindered trade to and from Flanders to a great extent in his regions.
Source: De Hanze en Vlaanderen 1950 by Jozef Hubert Beuken publisher Ernest van Aelst in Maastricht
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ningen
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ningen
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
Probably at the end of the 13th century, Deventer joined the Hanseatic League. At the height of the Hanseatic League in the mid-15th century, a large network of regular trade contacts existed from the Baltic States to England and from Norway deep into Austria .
The city was a port city. Large ships could navigate the IJssel inland as far as Deventer and moor at the quay. The Schipbeek was made navigable for small river ships as far as Münsterland by order of the city. It used to flow into the IJssel on the south side of the city and formed a natural harbor there. Overseas trade contacts existed in particular with Norwegian Bergen, for stockfish, and with Skåne (pronounced "Skoone"), now southern Sweden, but at that time Danish, where herring came from. That is why Deventer people used to be called stockfish or Schoonevaarders. There was also a lot of trade with the German Rhineland, the names "De Wezel" and "die Köln" in the facade of the Assenstraat 10 building are still reminders of this. Until the end of the Middle Ages in the area that is now the Netherlands, the city was a prominent trading city with German imperial privileges, such as the minting of gold coins.
In 1334 the city was hit by a major city fire.
In 1456 the Overstichtse Hanseatic cities resisted the candidate for the bishop's see of Utrecht proposed by the Burgundians. The Burgundian dukes, and their representatives/relatives, advocated a more centralized policy in which the cities could assert their privileges less. The Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good marched from Utrecht to Deventer with an army. After a short siege, the duke was able to impose his will on the city, and with it on the other Oversticht cities. It was the beginning of the decline of the power of the Hanseatic League in the northern Netherlands. From 1495, the city was still allowed to call itself a 'free imperial city', just like Zwolle and Kampen. The administrators of Deventer saw reason to adorn the city coat of arms with the German eagle and the imperial crown.
The city reached its economic peak at the end of the 15th century. At that time, five large markets were held every year, each lasting weeks and for which there was interest far beyond the Netherlands. Deventer was a center for internationally active merchants. At the beginning of the 16th century, the economic center of gravity in the northern Netherlands would shift definitively to the cities in Holland and Zeeland.
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Probably at the end of the 13th century, Deventer joined the Hanseatic League. At the height of the Hanseatic League in the mid-15th century, a large network of regular trade contacts existed from the Baltic States to England and from Norway deep into Austria .
The city was a port city. Large ships could navigate the IJssel inland as far as Deventer and moor at the quay. The Schipbeek was made navigable for small river ships as far as Münsterland by order of the city. It used to flow into the IJssel on the south side of the city and formed a natural harbor there. Overseas trade contacts existed in particular with Norwegian Bergen, for stockfish, and with Skåne (pronounced "Skoone"), now southern Sweden, but at that time Danish, where herring came from. That is why Deventer people used to be called stockfish or Schoonevaarders. There was also a lot of trade with the German Rhineland, the names "De Wezel" and "die Köln" in the facade of the Assenstraat 10 building are still reminders of this. Until the end of the Middle Ages in the area that is now the Netherlands, the city was a prominent trading city with German imperial privileges, such as the minting of gold coins.
In 1334 the city was hit by a major city fire.
In 1456 the Overstichtse Hanseatic cities resisted the candidate for the bishop's see of Utrecht proposed by the Burgundians. The Burgundian dukes, and their representatives/relatives, advocated a more centralized policy in which the cities could assert their privileges less. The Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good marched from Utrecht to Deventer with an army. After a short siege, the duke was able to impose his will on the city, and with it on the other Oversticht cities. It was the beginning of the decline of the power of the Hanseatic League in the northern Netherlands. From 1495, the city was still allowed to call itself a 'free imperial city', just like Zwolle and Kampen. The administrators of Deventer saw reason to adorn the city coat of arms with the German eagle and the imperial crown.
The city reached its economic peak at the end of the 15th century. At that time, five large markets were held every year, each lasting weeks and for which there was interest far beyond the Netherlands. Deventer was a center for internationally active merchants. At the beginning of the 16th century, the economic center of gravity in the northern Netherlands would shift definitively to the cities in Holland and Zeeland.
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Source: Wikipedia
The history of Arnhem is old and eventful. In the ninth century there was a church on that site, which belonged to the St. Salvatore abbey in Prüm (Germany). Three centuries later, the Count of Gelre levied tolls and Arnhem received city rights. For some time Arnhem was a member of the Hanze. Arnhem became an important city in the sixteenth century in particular, after Emperor Charles V designated the city as the de facto capital and government center of Gelderland.
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Source: https://www.absolutefacts.nl/historie/data/history-arnhem.htm
Photo source: Gelders archive

The history of Arnhem is old and eventful. In the ninth century there was a church on that site, which belonged to the St. Salvatore abbey in Prüm (Germany). Three centuries later, the Count of Gelre levied tolls and Arnhem received city rights. For some time Arnhem was a member of the Hanze. Arnhem became an important city in the sixteenth century in particular, after Emperor Charles V designated the city as the de facto capital and government center of Gelderland.
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Source: https://www.absolutefacts.nl/historie/data/history-arnhem.htm
Photo source: Gelders archive
Source photo British Library

Source photo British Library
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Between Helvoirt and Haaren an actual part of the Vlamenschenstraat was preserved. As the name Antwerpse Baan tells us, this is a remnant of the old, medieval trade route between 's-Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. At the time, merchants preferred transport by water, but there was no suitable shipping route from Den Bosch in a southwesterly direction. The freight carts to Antwerp drove from the Vughterpoort on dirt roads to Helvoirt, Tilburg, Turnhout and beyond.
Source: https://www.denbosch-cultuurstad.nl/Category/Geschiedenis_van_Den_Bosch
Photo source: Detail from Ludovico Guicciardini: Omnium Belgi Sive Inferioris Germaniae. Arnhem, Johannes Jansz, 1616

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Between Helvoirt and Haaren an actual part of the Vlamenschenstraat was preserved. As the name Antwerpse Baan tells us, this is a remnant of the old, medieval trade route between 's-Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. At the time, merchants preferred transport by water, but there was no suitable shipping route from Den Bosch in a southwesterly direction. The freight carts to Antwerp drove from the Vughterpoort on dirt roads to Helvoirt, Tilburg, Turnhout and beyond.
Source: https://www.denbosch-cultuurstad.nl/Category/Geschiedenis_van_Den_Bosch
Photo source: Detail from Ludovico Guicciardini: Omnium Belgi Sive Inferioris Germaniae. Arnhem, Johannes Jansz, 1616
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Picture source: Wikipedia

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Photo: Hoogstraten town hall
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Photo: Hoogstraten town hall
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In the fifteenth century, the German Hanseatic League already owned two city buildings in Antwerp, but they quickly proved too small.
After difficult negotiations between the Hanseatic League and the city council, both decided shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century to build the Hansa House. The architect Cornelis Floris De Vriendt was appointed for this purpose. The result was a building in late Renaissance palazzo style with a rectangular floor plan of 80 by 62 meters and three storeys. The basement and ground floors were arranged as warehouses, while the upper floors functioned as work and living spaces for the merchants.
After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the city lost its function as a trading metropolis. The Hansahuis no longer functioned as a trading palace, but successively became a warehouse, barracks, military hospital and Protestant church. Until 1863 the building remained the property of the Hanseatic cities, after which it was transferred to the Belgian state. In 1893 the Hansahuis was destroyed by a fire.
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Photo: Hansa House
Source: https://www.antwerpendoorgrond.be/nl/verforte_stad/info/de_hanze_in_antwerpen#:~:text=Eigenlijk%20is%20Antwerp%20never%20een,het%20Hansahuis%20in%20de%20Nieuwstad.
Photo source: www.felixarchief.be,

In the fifteenth century, the German Hanseatic League already owned two city buildings in Antwerp, but they quickly proved too small.
After difficult negotiations between the Hanseatic League and the city council, both decided shortly after the middle of the sixteenth century to build the Hansa House. The architect Cornelis Floris De Vriendt was appointed for this purpose. The result was a building in late Renaissance palazzo style with a rectangular floor plan of 80 by 62 meters and three storeys. The basement and ground floors were arranged as warehouses, while the upper floors functioned as work and living spaces for the merchants.
After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the city lost its function as a trading metropolis. The Hansahuis no longer functioned as a trading palace, but successively became a warehouse, barracks, military hospital and Protestant church. Until 1863 the building remained the property of the Hanseatic cities, after which it was transferred to the Belgian state. In 1893 the Hansahuis was destroyed by a fire.
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Photo: Hansa House
Source: https://www.antwerpendoorgrond.be/nl/verforte_stad/info/de_hanze_in_antwerpen#:~:text=Eigenlijk%20is%20Antwerp%20never%20een,het%20Hansahuis%20in%20de%20Nieuwstad.
Photo source: www.felixarchief.be,
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Photo town hall Eeklo
Source: Wikipedia

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Photo town hall Eeklo
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Wir sind ein Handellreibend Volk, mein König.
Was köstlich wächst in allen Himmelsstrichen.
Wird ausgestellt zur Schau und zum Genuss
Auf unerm Markt zu Bruegg.
(Schalfer. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Third Act, Third Scene).
It was mainly in the period from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century that Bruges developed into the great trading metropolis of Northwest Europe. An extremely favorable location from a mercantile point of view and the highly sought-after products of an industry famous throughout Europe had created the foundations for the flourishing of a truly international commercial life.
The street names of Bruges already prove to us that the Flemish Emporium displayed a cosmopolitan aspect like no other city north of the Alps. Since the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, Bruges had streets named after the citizens of Lübeck (since 1282), of Hamburg (since 1306).
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Photo: Hanzekantoor Bruges
Source photo Wikipedia

Wir sind ein Handellreibend Volk, mein König.
Was köstlich wächst in allen Himmelsstrichen.
Wird ausgestellt zur Schau und zum Genuss
Auf unerm Markt zu Bruegg.
(Schalfer. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Third Act, Third Scene).
It was mainly in the period from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century that Bruges developed into the great trading metropolis of Northwest Europe. An extremely favorable location from a mercantile point of view and the highly sought-after products of an industry famous throughout Europe had created the foundations for the flourishing of a truly international commercial life.
The street names of Bruges already prove to us that the Flemish Emporium displayed a cosmopolitan aspect like no other city north of the Alps. Since the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, Bruges had streets named after the citizens of Lübeck (since 1282), of Hamburg (since 1306).
City walk with audio support. https://izi.travel/nl/3ac0-discover-the-center-of-bruges/en
Photo: Hanzekantoor Bruges
Source photo Wikipedia
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