Hanseatic League Thread

Their trade networks were a major factor in the "great divergence" between Europe and the rest of the world.

They developed ocean going cargo ships from older Norse designs.

They made connections to Genoa and Portugal linking trade to the Mediterranean, hastening the spread of technology and the development of Portugal's naval technology.

They allowed the manufacturing centers of Flanders, France, Germany and England more access to natural resources like low impurity iron ore from Scandinavia and timber from the Baltic.

Their HQ was called a 'Kontor' and situated in Bergen.

You can tell when a city was part of the Hanseatic League because the coat of arms would incorperate the colours Red and White.

>>3336777
>double trips on a post about the Hansa
what a fucking waste

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>>3336668
They won a war against the Eternal Anglo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Hanseatic_War

>>3336813
They also won one against the eternal Dane.

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They erected nice buildings, founded cities and so-called kontors, trading posts in foreign cities.

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Their ships were cool, too.

The Lufthansa airline was named after the Hanseatic League ("Air-Hansa" translated).

>>3336668
>>3336777
>>3336802
OP is also dub trips. And I found that interesting, I did not know that before.

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>>3336777
>>3336846
>Their HQ was called a 'Kontor'
Nigger that just means office

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>>3336876
Which king's flagship is meant?

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>>3336880
In which language?

A textbook I read a while back theorized that the EU wasn't a revolutionary concept, but simply a natural evolution of the Hanseatic League and similar trade networks.


>>3336871
That's actually pretty clever.

>>3336884
German, and it's still in use. It actually translates better to "counting office" or "(business) branch" and has taken a back seat to the more common word Büro.

>>3336934
Are you German? I am and afaik "Konto" doesn't mean office, but bank account. Never heard the word Kontor being used.

>>3336940
>>3336934

I don't know about the modern German, but in Dutch 'kantoor' means office.

>>3336876

What was the name of that ship, anon?

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>>3337011
>What was the name of that ship, anon?
Adler von Lübeck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_von_L%C3%BCbeck

>>3336940
I'm American, but I study German. I just looked up Kontor in a dictionary and "counting office" came up as an archaic definition.
https://www.dict.cc/?s=Kontor

>>3337016

Thanks anon. I assume >>3336876 meant bigger than the Swedish king's ship?

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>>3336668
pic related is missing Bremen

>>3336880
>>3336940
>>3337011
A Hanse Kontor was warehouse, business facilities and living quarters for the merchants, so HQ is a fairly good description.
Kontor in German today is more or less anachronistic.
Other countries with Hanse history still use it for "office"

>t. german

>>3336880
>>3336884
>>3336934
>>3336940
>>3337011
>>3337048
>>3337228
Kontor is Plattduutsch/Low German you mongs

Anyone have book, or online reading recommendations for info about the Hanseatic League?

And does anyone know how relations were between cities that were part of the league?

>>3337228
In norwegian it means office.

>>3337348
In all Scandinavian languages it means office.

In german a "kontor" is a naval warehouse.