Hanseatic League Remnant Network

Timeline

1. c. 1600–1630Baltic ports · DanzigThe Thirty Years' War and Dutch and English shipping competition weakened Hanseatic control over Baltic routes, outposts such as Danzig were lost, the League's diet convened far less frequently, and ties among cities grew loose.
2. c. 1641–1650Hamburg and Lübeck · Hamburg–LübeckIn the 1640s, Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and other cities still coordinated grain, timber, and re-export trade under the Hanseatic name, maintaining some overseas kontors and consular relations, but could no longer restore their peak monopoly position.
3. 1669Lübeck · Free City of LübeckIn 1669 Lübeck convened the last Hanseatic diet, attended by only nine cities; the League formally ceased operations, and Northern European trade passed into a system dominated by modern sovereign ports and chartered companies.