Documents on the history of the Hanseatic League

International documentary treasure

Long before today's global trading system, the Hanseatic merchants recorded their transactions on paper - a treasure for modern historians. Written privileges and treaties of alliance also formed a cornerstone of the Hanseatic trading system. Joint resolutions were recorded at Hanseatic Conventions in so-called Recesses. From the countless documents of the Hanseatic period from Bruges to Tallinn, from Bergen to Brunswyk, 21 documents from six different countries were selected in an international process. For the first time, the European Hanseatic Museum has now made these important historical sources accessible to the public in short explanatory videos.

Further information:

• Short explanatory videos produced by the European Hansemuseum (only in German)
• The documents on the history of the Hanseatic League in the UNESCO Memory of the World Database