Hamburg

The Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages‎ -DAV- Crusade of Ashes and Blood

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Appearance

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Economy

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Population

• Likely Population, 1100 A.D. ????

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Citizens of Hamburg

Clergy

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Source

http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/frankish-names.php

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Festivities

• Twelfth Night (January) -- Religious festival and feasts celebrating the visit of the Wise Men, or Magi, following the birth of Jesus.
• St Valentine's Day (February) -- The Medieval festival celebrating love - singing, dancing and pairing games.
• Carnival (Late February - Early March) --
• Easter (March) -- Easter celebrated by the Mystery plays depicting the crucifixion.

Lent (40 days)

Ash Wednesday (start of Lent)

Holy Week (last week of Lent before Easter)

Good Friday (end of Lent)

Easter Sunday

• All Fool's Day (April) -- The Jesters, or Lords of Misrule, took charge for the day and caused mayhem with jokes and jests!
• May Day (May) -- May Day was a spring festival celebrating May Day when a Queen of the May was chosen and villagers danced around the maypole.
• Midsummer Eve (June) -- Midsummer Eve, the Mummers entertained at the 'Festival of Fire' reliving legends such as St George and the Dragon. Bones were often burned leading to the term 'bonfire'. The summer Solstice was June 23rd.
• St. Swithin's Day (July) -- St. Swithin's Day falls on 15th July. Legend says that during the bones of St Swithin were moved and after the ceremony it began to rain and continued to do so for forty days.
• Lammas Day (August) -- Lammas Day was celebrated on August 2nd. The ' loaf-mass ' day, the festival of the first wheat harvest of the year. Houses were sometimes decorated with garlands and there were candle lit processions.
• Michaelmas (September) -- The 29th September was when Michaelmas celebrated the life of St Michael and the traditional food on Michaelmas was goose or chicken.
• St Crispin's Day (October) -- October 25th celebrating St Crispin's Day. Revels and bonfires and people acted as 'King Crispin' .
• All Souls Day (November) -- The Day of the Dead - All Souls Day or All Hallow's Day ( Halloween ) when revels were held and bonfires were lit.
• Christmas (December) -- December 25 is celebrated as the birthday of Christ.

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Inns

Source

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/inn/

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Monuments

Amphitheaters

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Catacombs of

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Cemeteries

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Columns

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Private Residences

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Vampires of the City (3)

• Midian -- Mad Prince of Hamburg
• Lucius Cornelius Scipio -- Roman Brujah Elder
• Penelope of Sparta -- Cappadocian Elder of Hamburg

Afterword: In the Centuries to Come

Hamburg is called the "Cursed City" for a number of reasons, but it is a fading epithet among Hamburg's mortal citizens. For the Undead it is an entirely different matter, for since the Eighth Century, the city has been forbidden ground to the undead children of Caine. While the city does have a particularly violent past with countless invasions, fires and floods, this cannot account for the city's status among the undead. While little is known of why the city is unequivocally fatal to vampires, there is a rather extensive list of would be Cainite conquerors and transplants. All were able to take residence without seeming difficulty and there are many correspondences detailing the first year or so of undead residency. However, the number of correspondences dwindles down to a handful by the third year of residency and all correspondence ends by the fifth year, without exception. In short, the city is simple a death trap for the undead, though to be fair, no bodies or other evidence of the fates of over a hundred vampires has ever been documented by anyone, including myself. --------- Aristotle de Laurent

Crucesignatis (Crusaders)

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Memoria pro Mortuis (Remembrances for the Dead)

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Wraiths of medieval Hamburg

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Storytelling Medieval Bremen

Mood of Medieval Bremen:

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Stories of medieval Bremen

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Websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg

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