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The history of the Hanseatic League is quite fascinating. I was reading it recently as part of my genealogy research. My great grandparents gave my grandparents a wedding present in 1920 -- an original oil painting of the Krantor in Danzig. It dates back to the Hanseatic trading in Danzig.

The oldest documented mention of Krantor (Zuraw) as a wooden port crane was in 1367. What you see today, however, was reconstructed in the middle of the 15th century after a devastating fire devoured the original structure. The large crane was used to place masts on ships and to load cargo.

20 posted on 08/31/2020 8:15:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")

22 posted on 08/31/2020 9:32:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

I once had a boarding pass checked for Gdansk Poland and the Lufthansa clerk replied with a cold steel gaze: “DAAN-TSIHKH” (Danzig). No doubt in his mind the borders there have not been forgotten and resentment is deep.