Stade () is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( Metropolregion Hamburg ).

Glückstadt is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( Metropolregion Hamburg ).

Buxtehude () is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany in the district of Stade and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( Metropolregion Hamburg ).

Norderstedt is a city in Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( Metropolregion Hamburg ), the fifth largest city ( with approximately 75. 000 inhabitants ) in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, belonging to the district ( Kreis ) Segeberg.

The Upper Rhine tri-national region ( French: Région Métropolitaine Trinationale du Rhin Supérieur, German: Trinationale Metropolregion Oberrhein ) is a Euroregion that covers the border areas of the Upper Rhine ( the northern part of the Upper Rhine valley and the Palatinate are not included as they are not border areas ) and parts of the High Rhine.

The Central German Metropolitan Region ( Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland in German ) is one of eleven metropolitan regions in Germany.

The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region ( German: Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar ), often referred to as Rhein-Neckar-Triangle is a polycentric metropolitan region located in south western Germany, between the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main region to the North and the Stuttgart Region to the South-East.

* Official regional portal of Initiative Metropolregion Rhine Neckar ( German only )

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

After serving in the German army in World War I, he returned to Hamburg and climbed the academic ladder.

Since German reunification on 3 October 1990, Berlin has been one of the three city states, together with Hamburg and Bremen, among the present 16 states of Germany.

The central Hamburg neighborhood contains the most architecturally significant residences in the old German neighborhoods.

* 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, German composer and music director in Hamburg ( d. 1718 )

In Hamburg he tried with others to set up the German National Theatre.

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.

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.

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.

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

The Inner German border — only east of Hamburg — separated the city from most of its hinterland and further reduced Hamburg's global trade.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42, 000 German civilians.

Dunst's father is German, originally from Hamburg, and Dunst's mother, who was born in New Jersey, is of German and Swedish descent ( Dunst obtained German citizenship in 2011 and now holds dual citizenship with the United States and Germany ).

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

Today, the crime rate is low compared to other large German cities, such as Hamburg or Berlin.

* 1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

In one such study, from Hamburg, Germany, the risk of cancer mortality increased by 170 % after working for 10 years at the 2, 4, 5-T-producing section of a Hamburg manufacturing plant.

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

The earlier archbishopric seat in Hamburg had been attacked and destroyed several times, and thereafter the sees of Hamburg and Bremen were combined for protection.

The incidence of these words as suffixes to place names ( for example, Canterbury, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Gothenburg ) usually indicates that they were once fortified settlements.

In 1765 he returned to Berlin, only to leave again in 1767 to work for three years as a dramaturg and adviser at the Hamburg National Theatre ( the Hamburgische Entreprise ), whose main backer was Abel Seyler.

His theoretical writings Laocoon and Hamburg Dramaturgy ( Hamburgische Dramaturgie ) set the standards for the discussion of aesthetic and literary theoretical principles.

Beckett's pieces include numerous burlesques and pantomimes, the libretti of Savonarola ( Hamburg, 1884 ) and The Canterbury Pilgrims ( Drury Lane, 1884 ) for the music of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) C. V. Stanford.

The composer accepted ; he remained in Hamburg for the rest of his life.

Telemann declined the position, but only after using the offer as leverage to secure a pay raise for his position in Hamburg.

In Hamburg Telemann started publishing his literary works: poems, texts for vocal music, sonnets, poems on the deaths of friends and colleagues.

* Trauermusik for Hamburg mayor: nl: Garlieb Sillem Schwanengesang TWV 4: 6

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 was the departure port for most Germans and Eastern Europeans to emigrate to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1841, Schliemann moved to Hamburg and became a cabin boy on the Dorothea, a steamer bound for Venezuela.

Initially, they lived near the city docks, in the Gängeviertel quarter of Hamburg, for six months, before moving to a small house on the Dammtorwall, a small city in the Inner Alster.

* Joachim Tielke The website for the great Hamburg lutemaker Joachim Tielke

Atta and the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the " planes operation " in the United States.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.