Beyond Plan B - Workbook I - Project Analysis
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Alliance
with Hamburg
1241
1159
Establishment
Rebuilding of Lübeck
Began to form guilds or Hansa
War with Denmark
Hansa 15% of Danish trade profits
1227
1266
1282
Lübeck became
free imperial city
Charter operations
in England
Cologne joined
Own rules
No taxes
Dutch-Hanseatic war
Hanseatic League
New trade routes
1356
1361
European Economic
Community
1958
Breaking of Hansa's monopoly on the Baltic
Begining of the Hansa's decline
1370
1438
1441
1593
Merger
Treaty
1967
1669
Expansion
Decline
Last meeting
New trading product
Monopolisation the Baltic
Hansa trading posts began to close
Only 9 members attended
1862
End of the Hansa
Flo Beck via Wikipedia.org
Effects
Coast of nothern Europe
The League organized and controled trade throughout
northern Europe by winning commercial privileges and
monopolies and by establishing trading bases overseas.
Hanseatic trade route. Main trading route of the
Hanseatic League in the Northern Europe.
all the member towns.
1358-1862
≈500 years
Cologne (Rhine River)
Hamburg and Bremen (North Sea)
Scale
core
semi
peri
LOCAL
Investment
marinemaler-olaf-rahardt.com via Wikipedia.org
REGIONAL
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Hanseatic flagship of Lübeck to uphold its
long-privileged commercial position.
EU
WORLD
The Hanseatic League was a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds
that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe and flourished
from the 1200 to 1500. The chief cities were Cologne on the Rhine River,
Hamburg and Bremen on the North Sea, and Lübeck on the Baltic. Each
city had its own legal system and a degree of political autonomy.
Deutsche Fotothek via Wikipedia.org
Architectural heritage. Great cultural heritage
was left, especially renowned for its Brick
Gothic monuments .
London: Wm Heinemann via Wikipedia.org
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• In past history the transport of goods between different countries has been more dangerous than today. The most common
and fastest way to deliver goods was by sea..
• The Hanseatic Leagues aim was to
protect its ship convoys, goods and caravans by quelling pirates and brigands.
• Due to scale advantages of the whole
network they could offer better protection to their traders.
• The stragety was to create a super
regional economic community.
• The rising Swedish Empire had taken
control of much of the Baltic.
• The project is considered to have been the first super-regional
economic community of the world.
• From the mid-13th century the association between German
merchants became much more extensive and regularized.
• The League received as much monies,
paid in taxes, and economical power
out of it as possible.
• The economic and political influence
of the league made it easy to control
trade routes and to block competition.
• Reasonable assurance against pirates
and brigands was provided.
• Denmark had regained control over its
own trade, the Kontor in Novgorod had
closed, and the Kontor in Bruges had
become effectively moribund.
• The league established permanent commercial enclaves (Kontore) in a many foreign towns, for ecxample Flanders, Bergen
in Norway, Novgorod Russia and London etc.
• Around 1265 all northern German towns voted in favour of
the “law of Lübeck” and agreed on common legislation for the
defence of merchants and their goods.
• To provide protection they founded a supra regional network
called the Hansa league, which was held together by commen
economic interest under the idea of a free trade concept.
• The league established a monopoly
position of trade routes.
• Safe navigation was fostered by building lighthouses and training pilots.
• The league organized and controlled
trade throughout northern Europe by
winning commercial privileges, creating
monopolies and by establishing trading
bases overseas.
• This league is open to all former Hanseatic League members and cities that
once hosted a Hanseatic kontor. • The league’s principal trade consisted
of staples which went from Russia and
Poland to Flanders and England, which
in return sent clothes and other manufactured goods eastward to the Slavs.
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• The individual cities which made up the
League also started to put self-interest before their common Hanseatic
interests.
• By the late 16th century, the League
had imploded and could no longer deal
with its own internal struggles.
• The Hanseatic League declined partly because it lacked any
centralized power
• After its collapse, cities still maintain the link to the Hanseatic
League today. like Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen. • The “new Hanse” fosters and develops business links, tourism
and cultural exchange.
• In 1980, former Hanseatic League members established a
“new Hanse” in Zwolle.
• Since 1980, 163 cities in 15 different countries have joined
forces to form an active network of cities
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