Typisch bremisch Typically “Bremish”

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Das Linzer Diplom belegt die noch heute gültige Sonderstellung
Bremens in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
The Linz Document verifies Bremen’s special position in the Federal
Republic of Germany, which still applies today.
SCENES OF (ECONOMIC) HISTORY
The State of Bremen: how it became what it is
On 1 June 1646, a Friday towards the end of the Thirty
Years War, Emperor Ferdinand III. sat in his castle in Linz
on the river Danube and put his signature on a sheet of
parchment, which reads: “We, Ferdinand the Third, by the
grace of God elected Roman Emperor, acknowledge that
the City of Bremen has been a direct free imperial city of
the Holy Roman Empire since time immemorial and is
therefore Our direct subject and subject of the Holy
Roman Empire, alone and without mediator [...].” The
document bears a large, red imperial seal which gives it
unique historical significance. It is “the birth certificate of
Bremen’s modern independence”, says Konrad Elmshäuser,
head of Bremen City Archives.
The document from Linz verifies that the Free Hanseatic
City of Bremen is one of Europe’s oldest extant republics.
It puts the factual seal on the city’s independence wrested
from the archbishops since the 13th century and lays the