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69 Bergen.
Bergen.
berusendeDrikke; 1217 sluttedes en Ilandelstraktat med |
England og 1278 med Hansestæderne. Fra denne Tid
fik Tyskerne mere og mere Indpas i Byen med stadigt
udvidede Privilegier, indtil de i 1445 fik sig et fast
Kontor paa Bryggen med Eneret til den nordlandske
Handel. I over et Aarhundrede beherskede
Hanseaterne hele den bergenske Nordlandshandel, indtil deres
Magt i 1559 blev knækket ved Christopher Walkendorfs
kraftige Foranstaltninger. Efter den Tid er Handelen
gradvis atter gaaet over i de bergenske Borgeres
Hænder; i 1763 solgtes den sidste hanseatiske Eiendom
paa Bryggen. Paa Holbergs Tid var Bergen den største
Handelsby i de nordiske Riger; endnu i 1768 var dens
Handel dobbelt saa stor som Kjøbenhavns. I
Krigs-aarene før 1814 led Bergens Handel betydeligt ved
Krigen med England, men er efter den Tid gaaet
stadigt fremad; navnlig har dens Handel og Skibsfart i
de sidste 10 Aar været i en blomstrende Forfatning.
Bergens vigtigste Handel er fremdeles Handelen med
Nordland, og dens Udførsel, der er den største af alle
norske Byers, bestaar saagodtsom udelukkende i
Fiskeprodukter: Tørfisk, Klipfisk, Sild, Tran og Rogn.
Nord-lændingerne bringe selv to Gange om Aaret, i de
saakaldte Nordfarstævuer, sine Varer til Byen, i første
Stævne, der falder i Mai og Juni, mest Tran og Rogn,
i sidste Stævne, der falder i Juli og August, mest
Klipfisk og Tørfisk. I de senere Aar besørges dog
Vareforsendelsen for en ikke liden Del af Dampskibe hele
Aaret rundt. Bergens Skibsfart er ligeledes meget
betydelig; dens anselige Handelsflaade bestaar dels af
større skarptbyggede Skibe, som sysselsættes ved Fragt-
chased the Germans from the town for selling
spirituous liquors; in 1217 a commercial treaty was
concluded with England, and, in 1278, with the Hanseatic
Towns. From that time forth the Germains gained a
firmer footing in the town, securing all manners of
privileges, till, in 1445, they obtained even a "fast
Kontor," or Commercial Hall, of their own, on the
"Bryggen," with a monopoly of the Nordland trade.
During more than a century these members of the
Hanseatic League reaped undisputed the benefit of the
Nordland trade with Bergen; but in 1599, their
encroachments were effectually checked by the energetic
measures of Christopher Walkendorff. Since then, the
trade of the city gradually passed into the hands of
the burghers; and, in 1763, the last house on the
Bryggen belonging to the Hanseatic Company was
purchased by a citizen of the town. In Holberg’s time
Bergen was indisputably the first commercial city in
the three Northern kingdoms; even as late as 1768 its
trade was double that of Copenhagen’s. In the great
continental wars that raged before the downfall of
Napoleon, the trade of Bergen suffered severely from
the war with Great Britain; but since then her
commercial progress has been steady; and during the last
ten years, trade and shipping in particular have been
in a flourishing condition. The most important part
of Bergen’s trade is still that with Nordland; and the
exports of this city, the most considerable of any in
the kingdom, consist almost exclusively in fish,—
dry-fish, roch-fish (fish cured by exposure on the rocks),
herrings, train-oil, and roe. The Nordland people them-
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