The Hanseatic League

What are your thoughts on the medieval hanseatic league?

Least favorite start date. All the could shits already happened and there's only a few hundred years left.

Only time Plattduutsch/low german was actually relevant

Judging by the name of it, it was supposedly lead by Hans.

Very good at trolling danes.

*blocks your path*
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baltic jews

>Germans are peaceful and trade
Jews
>Germans are militaristic
Huns

What would you like to have, then?

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Great lads, wish we had a northern-central European trading block even now.

Best start date is earliest tbqfh

You want the HRE? Cause that's who built it, if that's the arch in Lybeck.

Lübeck was a member of the Hanseatic League at the time, and the city built it, not some imperial entity.

Was it? I remember reading about the HRE on the structure it self.

If I remember correctly Lübeck was atleast for a time the most important city of the Hanse.

German Jews

I just checked Wikipedia, it says the city improved the city walls because it became more wealthy through the Hanseatic League.

Lufthansa still bears the Hanseatic League's name

I love it.

>when the Hansa is the scale tipper in Swedish-Danish medieval power struggles

Anybody have good book recommendations for the Hanseatic League?

Hansa: History and Culture by Johannes Schildhauer

The new ships were their undoing, there was less need to make frequent stops at all the Hanseatic cities or use the Hamburg-Luebeck overland route.