A Companion to the Hanseatic League

212 Jahnke Salted herring gained increased importance throughout Europe with the spread of Christianity. By 1300, the Christian ...

The Baltic Trade 213 At the traditional meeting places of the farmers at Skanör on the penin- sula of Falsterbo, at Dragør on th ...

214 Jahnke table 6.1 The import of Scanian herring in the harbor of Lübeck in Rostocker Barrel Port of Origin 1384/85 1398 1399 ...

The Baltic Trade 215 of Baltic grain, even if this import did not lead to that country’s dependency on Hanseatic merchants.73 On ...

216 Jahnke rose from a minimum of 8,473 lasts in the 1490s to 30,000 lasts in the 1550s up to 95,000 lasts annually in the 1640s ...

The Baltic Trade 217 Dutch beer-market. But as new research has shown, this idea has not always been the reality.82 Beer was usu ...

218 Jahnke this time. Wendian beer was exported to the west in addition to Hamburgian brews, and also found a significant outlet ...

The Baltic Trade 219 table 6.2 Import of wax in English harbors between 1303 and 1311 Customs year from Michaelmas to Michaelmas ...

220 Jahnke figures regarding the wax export of the Baltic in Hanseatic times, because fig- ures for the exports from Novgorod an ...

The Baltic Trade 221 coast, specifically the kontors in Novgorod, Polozk, Pskow, Smolensk98 and the Hanseatic cities, foremost R ...

222 Jahnke fur trade to the Hanse, no research into it has been conducted until recently.105 One reason could be that we are mis ...

The Baltic Trade 223 It appears as though the Hanseatic trade in fur lost its importance in the course of the fourteenth century ...

224 Jahnke The transport of wood is very complex. Because of this, sea- and river- transport is the best and cheapest possibilit ...

The Baltic Trade 225 temperatures.124 Ashes were produced in the felling-areas and from there trans- ported to the overseas cent ...

226 Jahnke Masovia.126 The Teutonic Order exported the ash directly to Flanders, where the Order in the port of Damme had rented ...

The Baltic Trade 227 table 6.4 Tar and pitch transported on the Vistula River Year Tar and pitch together Ta r Pitch 1463 – (no ...

228 Jahnke Göllnitz, Bartfeld, Letschau,132 Libethen, Neusohl and the region Spiš/Zips in The High Tatras, where copper had been ...

The Baltic Trade 229 Slovakian copper-production began. In this situation, south German high financiers invested a lot of money ...

230 Jahnke Certainly, the Lubeckian investment secured some kind of Hanseatic influ- ence at the copper mines, but this cannot b ...

The Baltic Trade 231 From the times of Gustav Vasa onwards, the production and export of Swedish copper assumed dimensions of in ...