[SwinneySwitch]

A short history of Hamburg!

"The history of Hamburg starts in the year AD825 with the building of the "Hammaburg", a moated castle built between the Alster and Elbe rivers. This was apparently a combination of earth works and a wooden palisade type of fortress. The second part of the name is clearly "-burg" for "castle", but there are three contenders for the origin of the "Ham-" part. These are reported as being:
-Ham = River Bank in the Saxon tongue of the time or
-Hamme being the name of the Beech woods that surrounded the area and were used in building the walls of the fortress or
-Something fixed in a marshy area; again presumably in the then local dialect."

We shall never know which, but Ham had nothing to do with pigs or cows, PETA!!!

[gr8eman]

Ham means pork meat, damn it!!! Everyone knows that!!! Liar!!!

[gr8eman]

I vote for the river bank name for the Hansestadt!

[Twinkie]

Bocaburg?