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ID: 7005479
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005479

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hamelin (inhabited place)  Hamelin (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 009 21 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.3500  decimal degrees

Note: The city of Hameln lies on the Weser River southwest of the city of Hanover in Lower Saxony. It was an ancient Saxon settlement. The Abbey of St. Boniface was founded there in the late 8th century and the town grew up around it. Receiving its charter around 1200, it became the possession of the duchy of Brunswick around 1259 and later joined the Hanseatic League. In legend it is the site of the rat-catcher Pied Piper's story, which was perhaps based on the exodus of young men colonizing the east, or on Nicholas of Köln leading thousands of children on the tragic Children's Crusade in 1212. Hameln attracts many tourists, situated as it is at the center of the Lower Weser Highlands scenic area and nature park. It has a river port and railway junction, and local industries including food processing and the production of chemicals, carpets, and machinery. Its 2004 estimated population was 59,200.

Names:
Hameln (preferred,C,V,English)
Hameln (German,U,N)
Hamelin (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Hamlin (C,O)
Jamelin (C,O)
המלין (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lower Saxony (state)  ............  Lower Saxony (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Hamelin (inhabited place)  ................  Hamelin (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established by ancient Saxons, modern town grew up around Abbey of St. Boniface in 8th century;, chartered ca. 1200
city (C)
port (C)
river settlement (C)
commercial center (C)  ............  was early market town dependent upon abbey at Fulda until 1259, was member of Hanseatic League
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces carpets, foodstuffs, machinery, and chemicals
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
המלין..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Hamelin..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 04/11/00
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 484
Hameln..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:371-372
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 5:656-657
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 78
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Hamlin..........  [VP]
.................  Browning, Pied Piper (1934) title
Jamelin..........  [VP]
.................  Calamaro, Flutiste de Jamelin (1992) title
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Browning, Pied Piper (1934) title
..................  Calamaro, Flutiste de Jamelin (1992) title
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:371-372
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 5:656-657
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 04/11/00
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1785461
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 78
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 484
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Hameln." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2002-. http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=39817&tocid=0&query=hameln&ct=eb#TOP (12 July 2004)
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
..........  World Gazetteer [online] (1990-2006) accessed 12 July 2004

 

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