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Hamburg in 1686

Hamburg was a Free and Imperial City of the early modern Holy Roman Empire. The city was under the dual jurisdiction of the Emperor and a self-governing commune controlled by a council (called the Senate), elected by the enfranchised burghers. By the 1680s, Hamburg was considered by contemporaries as the German Amsterdam, or florentissimum Emporium totius Germaniae - the most greatly flourishing German city. In the late seventeenth-century, Hamburg had circa 75.000 inhabitants, and was situated next to the Danish city of Altona; Altona was controlled by the Danes from 1640 onwards.

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Hamburg Map 1686
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Places in this city

The Deichstrasse: a famous hub of commerce in an interconnected trade city
Banquet Hall
Merchant's Hall
St. Nicholas: church, parish and political space
Cord Jastram
Hieronymus Snitger
Museum of Hamburg History: printing industries (in Hamburg and Europe)
Imprint Golden A.B.C.
Printing-shop Interior
Hamburg's opera house at the Goosemarket: stage of urban power struggles
Cara Mustapha
Public gathering on Goosemarket
Opera House
The Großneumarkt: a media resonating box
Theatre of horror
Wiering's Relations-Courier
The Trostbrücke: bridge to the political heart of Hamburg
Inside Law Court
Law Court building-complex
Eimbeck's House at the Dornbusch: coffee and drinking houses as hubs of news
Coffeehouse Media
Inside a Coffeehouse