Towns & Kontors of the Hanseatic League
Member towns, foreign kontors and trading posts of the Hanseatic League.
The urban network of the Hanseatic League: the chartered member towns of the German and Baltic coasts, the four great foreign kontors (Novgorod, Bergen, Bruges, London) and lesser trading posts. Each place is marked by its role and an indicative date of association, exposing the commercial spine that bound the North and Baltic Seas. The compilation is illustrative and representative, not a complete roster.
| Theme | Demographic — linguistic & population |
|---|---|
| Region | Europe |
| Temporal range | 1159–1450 CE |
| Geographic coverage | Continental |
| Records | 30 geolocated entities |
| Data source | Representative compilation (manual) |
| Centroid | 53.99° N · 12.25° E |
| Last revised | Jun 2026 |
A hand-assembled, representative selection of Hanseatic towns, kontors and trading posts (place, role and an indicative association date), drawn from standard accounts and simplified for cartographic illustration.
The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.048.