Rural drivers

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In the medieval Hanseatic era, the English merchant adventurers and Dutch merchants who entered the Baltic Sea as competitors and who took their ships from the North Sea around the Jutland peninsula to the Baltic Sea were referred to as local travelers .

The voyage around Skagen through the Skagerrak , Kattegat and Öresund increased sharply from the middle of the 13th century, as this sea route became less risky due to the increasingly improved shipbuilding quality of the cog . The suburban drivers were privileged as a group for the first time in 1251 by King Abel of Denmark . The Wendish cities of the Hanseatic League, especially Lübeck and the merchants of the southern Baltic Sea coast, who were united in the corporations of the Schonenfahrer , understood the suburban journey through non-Hansen as an encroachment on their trading privileges, such as the stacking right .

One of the important goals of the people traveling around the area in the early Hanseatic era was the Skåne fair on the Skåne Falsterbo peninsula , which, together with the “cities” Skanör-Falsterbo, was the center of herring fishing and trade in the Baltic region. During the heyday and decline of the Hanseatic League, competition existed throughout the entire Baltic Sea, including the Hanseatic cities of Gdansk , Riga and Reval , which clearly shows the conflicting interests within the Hanseatic League.

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