Also send to miss the fact that Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are (uniquely in Germany), both cities and states officially.<p>Bremen and Hamburg are an oddity since they have maintained some degree of state autonomy since the forming of the &#x27;Hanseatic League&#x27;, the history of which is several hundreds of years old, dishing numerous cities birding the North and Baltic Seas.<p>Interestingly, the German city of Lübeck also held this honour, up until it was removed by Adolf Hitler, after they refused him to publicly speak in the city.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanseatic_League" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanseatic_League</a>