Harbour Birthday
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Harbour birthday is generally a name for the foundation or opening day of a harbour, or his annual return.
This can be committed like a birthday or round jubilee solemnly. As a rule one understands by this concept, above all in North Germany, the harbour birthday of the
Hamburg harbour which is celebrated under this name in Hamburg annually since 1977 with a public festival in and in the harbour and with other events. The harbour
birthday it is committed in temporal nearness to the 7th of May (oversea day), in 7th of May, 1189 as a prominent date of the harbour history goes back.
When of emperor Friedrich Barbarossa issued to the hamburgers on the 7th of May, 1189 a charter, exemption from duty for her ships on the Elbe was granted to the
hamburgers by the town up to the North Sea. This charter does not exist any more in the original, but merely in 1265 made duplicates by which is supposed that she
contains at least content falsifications.
Therefore, the hamburgers commit the harbour birthday since 1977 every year for some days about 7th of May. By the memory town to Saint Pauli it is celebrated in
several live stages and various other places. Some of the biggest sailing ships of the world open the festivities with a big finish parade. The popular dragon's
boat running on the Elbe is legendary. The party in Hamburg lasts as a rule three days and begins with the finish parade on Friday and ends with the outlet parade
on Sunday. To the entrance or running out the ships the respective national anthem is played, if necessary also Hamburg-Hymne (Hammonia) if it concerns a Hamburg ship.
On an average visit over a million people every year the harbour birthday Hamburg.
The appointments of the harbour birthday Hamburg till 2015
07. Mai - 09. Mai 2010
06. Mai - 08. Mai 2011
11. Mai - 13. Mai 2012
09. Mai - 12. Mai 2013
09. Mai - 11. Mai 2014
08. Mai - 10. Mai 2015
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In the harbour birthday a lot of ships are staying in Hamburg. The palette reaches from the big modern passport avarice ship up to the great yachtsmen very nicely to be looked.
A small slide show with 43 pictures is available to you here.
The pictures can be indicated individually, then they are shown in another window, besides, one can use the badges of wide or back in the pictures to look at the next or before shown picture.
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