More than 50 % of all the population of Livingston County is located in the southeastern communities of Brighton Township, Genoa Township, Hamburg Township, Green Oak Township, the Village of Pinckney, Putnam Township and the City of Brighton.

The city of Brighton's wastewater treatment plant facility is located in Hamburg Township and services the city of Brighton and parts of Genoa, Brighton, and Hamburg townships.

* Brighton is to the northeast, and the Brighton ZIP code, 48116, serves northeastern areas of Hamburg Township.

* Pinckney is to the west, and the Pinckney ZIP code, 48169, serves much of the western portion of Hamburg Township.

* Whitmore Lake is to the southeast, and the Whitmore Lake ZIP code, 48189, serves a portion in the southeast of Hamburg Township.

Five miles of the Lakelands Trail have been developed through Hamburg Township.

Just over an entire section ( Section 10 ) of Hamburg Township contains a significant portion of the Brighton State Recreation Area.

Hamburg Township is traversed east to west by approximately 10 miles of the Huron River.

Hamburg Township is a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program and the Community Rating Service Program of NFIP, being a Class 8 community.

Hamburg Township is served in many areas of the township by local sewer service.

Hamburg Township is a participating community in the Livingston Community Water Authority.

* Official Hamburg Township, Michigan website

For grades 9-12, public school students attend Wallkill Valley Regional High School which is composed of students from Franklin Borough, Hardyston Township, Hamburg Borough and Ogdensburg Borough, and is part of the Wallkill Valley Regional High School District.

In terms of physical geography, nearly all of Hardyston ( excluding the portion of the Township west of Hamburg along Route 94 ) lies within the New York-New Jersey Highlands, part of the greater Crystalline Appalachians that extend as far south as the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to form Vernon Township ( April 8, 1793 ), Sparta Township ( April 14, 1845 ), Franklin ( March 18, 1913 ) and Hamburg ( March 19, 1920 ).

Postal ZIP codes covering Hardyston Township are 07460 Stockholm, 07416 Franklin Borough, 07419 Hamburg Borough, and a small part of 07848 Lafayette Township.

For grades 9-12, public school students attend Wallkill Valley Regional High School which covers Franklin Borough, Hardyston Township, Hamburg Borough and Ogdensburg Borough, and is part of the Wallkill Valley Regional High School District.

* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

Andreas Schlüter was born in Hamburg His early life is obscure as at least three different persons of that name are documented.

This is the first reference to " the Baltic or Barbarian Sea, a day's journey from Hamburg.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

* Fritz-kola is a cola soft drink from Hamburg, Germany.

The 21st and current Commissioner is Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg.

The largest port is that of Hamburg.

The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks # 2 in Europe, # 7 worldwide ( 2004 ), in total container traffic.

Franzbrötchen, which originated in the area of Hamburg, is the small, sweet pastry roll baked with butter and cinnamon.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe ( after the port of Rotterdam ) and eleventh largest worldwide.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

Hamburg is a major transport hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe.

The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors ; Hamburg ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2011, and, in 2010, the city ranked 10th in the world.

Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south and Scandinavia to its north.

The North Sea is west and the Baltic Sea is northeast of Hamburg.

Hamburg is located on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster and Bille.

The first description of civil, criminal and procedural law for a city in Germany in the German language, the Ordeelbook ( Ordeel: sentence ) was written by the solicitor of the senate of Hamburg, Jordan von Boitzenburg, in 1270.

Important locations of the civil aerospace industry worldwide include Seattle, Dayton, Ohio and St. Louis in the USA ( Boeing ), Montreal in Canada ( Bombardier ), Toulouse in France and Hamburg in Germany ( both Airbus / EADS ), the North-West of England and Bristol in the UK ( BAE Systems, Airbus and AgustaWestland ), as well as São José dos Campos in Brazil where Embraer is based.

Already before 1848 the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach enacted optional civil marriages, followed by the German republics of the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main ( 1850, obligatory ), Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( 1851, optional ) and Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck ( 1852, optional ).

Bahro's Hamburg speech culminated in the allegation that the " realos " to Joschka Fischer would seek out of greed for power, a situation that could lead to civil war and subsequent dictatorship, sparking violent protests by the addressee.

The civil authorities gave them peace for a while after the Hamburg fire of 1842, due to the help the Baptists gave to the people of the city.

The situation in Hamburg and Thuringia also was very much like a civil war.

The Danes had lower taxes and placed fewer civil impositions on their Jewish community than did the government of Hamburg.

Replacing the misfits was a new breed of efficient, humane, colonial civil servant, usually the product of Dernburg's own creation, the ... Colonial Institute at Hamburg.

" Proclamation — The 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener from Hamburg, sentenced on 11 August 1942 by the People's Court to death and lasting loss of civil rights for conspiracy to commit high treason and treasonous promotion of the enemy, was executed today.

When the civil rights of the " Paulskirchenverfassung " ( Paulskirche constitution ) came into effect in Hamburg on 21 February 1849, Riesser was able to become citizen of Hamburg, a rare and dear franchise at that time, which the bulk of the inhabitants did not hold.

After the war, he joined Von Lettow's Freikorps and, during the civil unrest of 1919, helped to crush the Communist Workers Council in Hamburg.