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| | historical Braunschweig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The name of the city is, however, attested to by the oldest still-existing document kept in the city archives. |
 | | To demonstrate his power and glory, he had the famous bronze lion set up in the castle square in 1166, and walls and moats built around the city; in 1173 he erected the imposing Cathedral of St.Blasii, and in 1175 reconstructed Brunos old castle Dankwerderode. |
 | | Braunschweig joined the Hanseatic League as early as the 13th century, a membership that was to determine to a large extent the citys ecconomic, and political fate for over 400 years, in fact until the summer of 1671, when the city was subjugated by the Guelph Dukes. |
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