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Coordinates: 53°33′3″N 9°59′37″E. Bombing of Hamburg. Part of strategic bombing during World War II. Aftermath in the Eilbek district of Hamburg. This picture was taken after much of the rubble had been cleared, probably after VE day. Date. 10 September 1939 – 14 April 1945. Location. Hamburg, Germany.
The IANA time zone database contains two zones for Germany, "Europe/Berlin" and "Europe/Busingen", although in 1945, the Trizone did not follow Berlin's switch to midsummer time. [citation needed] Germany had been politically divided into East Germany and West Germany at and after the start of the Unix epoch, which is the date from which the tz ...
History of Hamburg. Hamburg was founded in the 9th century as a mission settlement to convert the Saxons. Since the Middle Ages, it has been an important trading center in Europe. The convenient location of the port and its independence as a city and state for centuries strengthened this position.
Protesters in Germany glued themselves to the runway tarmac at the Cologne airport in a demonstration against the use of fossil fuels Thursday. Climate activists break into German airport sites ...
The Port of Hamburg ( German: Hamburger Hafen, pronounced [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ˈhaːfn̩] ⓘ) is a seaport on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres (68 mi) from its mouth on the North Sea . Known as Germany's "Gateway to the World" ( Tor zur Welt ), [ 4 ] it is the country's largest seaport by volume. [ 5 ] In terms of TEU throughput ...
Hamburg ( German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [ 7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [ 8][ 9] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 8th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. [ 10][ 1] The Hamburg Metropolitan ...
Transrapid 09 at the Emsland test facility in Lower Saxony, Germany A full trip on the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo. Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance.
Harvestehude. / 53.57765; 9.98893. Harvestehude ( German pronunciation ⓘ; Hamburgisch: Harvstehuud) is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Eimsbüttel. It is located on the eastern boundaries of the borough near lake Außenalster .