Biggest Cities of the Hanseatic League in the mid-15th century:

    1. Cologne							40k					(1)
    2. Danzig (Gdańsk)					25k					(2)
    3. Magdeburg						22k					(1)
    4. Lübeck							20k					(1)
    5. Braunschweig					18k					(2)
    6. Breslau (Wrocław)				18k					(2)
    7. Hamburg							16k					(1)
    8. Kraków							16k					(2)
    9. Bremen							15k					(2)
    10. Erfurt							15k					(1 / 2)
    11. Stralsund							13k					(2)
    12. Rostock							12k					(1 / 2)
    13. Münster							11k					(2)
    14. Königsberg (Kaliningrad)			10k					(2)
    15. Riga								10k					(2)
    16. Dortmund						9k					(1 / 2)
    17. Goslar							9k					(2)
    18. Lüneburg						9k					(2)
    19. Mühlhausen						9k					(1)
    20. Nijmegen						9k					(2)
    21. Soest							9k					(2)
    22. Stettin (Szczecin)					9k					(1)
    23. Elbing (Elbląg)					8k					(2)
    24. Groningen						8k					(2)
    25. Hildesheim						8k					(1)
    26. Wismar							8k					(2)
    27. Berlin							7k					(1)
    28. Frankfurt an der Oder				7k					(2)
    29. Halberstadt						7k					(2)
    30. Roermond						7k					(2)
    31. Thorn (Toruń)					7k					(2)
    32. Visby							7k					(4) ~70 ha, 100/ha
    33. Deventer							6k					(2)
    34. Dinant							6k					(2)
    35. Göttingen						6k					(2)
    36. Kampen							6k					(2)
    37. Stendal							6k					(2)
    38. Stockholm						6k					(2)
    39. Wesel							6k					(2)
    40. Arnhem							5k					(2)
    41. Einbeck							5k					(2)
    42. Greifswald						5k					(2) 1400 estimate used, 2k too low
    43. Halle							5k					(2)
    44. Hanover							5k					(1)
    45. Kolberg (Kołobrzeg)				5k					(2)
    46. Lemgo							5k					(5) ~50 ha, 100/ha
    47. Nordhausen						5k					(2)
    48. Osnabrück						5k					(1 / 2)
    49. Zutphen							5k					(2)
    50. Zwolle							5k					(2)




    • (1) Some data interpolated from several population development pages on German Wikipedia
    • (2) https://ssh.datastations.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.17026/dans-xzy-u62q
    • (4) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/SqToY85553tmY4OZp_xwPtKRG8DYobMUEJVHl_yNw7w4-buA66zXakuGsbM6BtiexefZsFf_kOcmjvuir7SJOC_z
    • (5) https://www.lemgo-marketing.de/wp-content/uploads/Stadtfuehrung.jpg