Portal:Hamburg/Did you know

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This is the "Did you know" (DYK) subpage for the Hamburg portal.

Instructions

• All hooks must first have appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know section.
• The layout design for the Hamburg portal Did you know subpages is

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''[[Portal:Hamburg/Did you know|Nominations]]'' • ''[[Portal:Hamburg/Did_you_know/archive|Archive]]'' • '''[[Help:Starting a new page|Start a new article]]'''
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1. Please provide an |alt= for the image describing, what a user see on the picture, for those who cannot see it (See also: Wikipedia:Alternative text for images).
2. Add the date of appearance on the main page to the hook.

Add your hook from the DYK main page

1. Update your DYK to the end of the subpage, a pictured hook at the top. (Pictured hooks can stay until the next hook with a picture is mentioned on the main page.)
3. Mark the date of the DYK at the end of the hook, so the hook can be properly archived.
5. Please, archive the oldest hook on the archive page.
6. Please not more than 6 hooks on the DYK page.

Nominations

• Any Hamburg-related DYKs, that have previously appeared at Template:Did you know, may be added to the subpage below.

Coming soon

• ... that the buildings now serving as Consulate General of the United States were used as headquarters for the Nazi party in Hamburg?

Current list

Portal:Hamburg/Did you know/1

• ... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
• ... that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned?
• ... that Hamburg's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
• ... that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are from the private collection of Peter Tamm, who started collecting when he was six years old?
• ... that 20th-century composers including Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis wrote music for cellist Siegfried Palm?
• ... that the Punch of the Hamburg Police has educated children in road traffic safety since 1948?