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Hameln

[ hah-muhln ]

noun

  1. a city in N central Germany, on the Weser River: scene of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.


Hameln

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. an industrial town in N Germany, in Lower Saxony on the Weser River: famous for the legend of the Pied Piper (supposedly took place in 1284). Pop: 58 902 (2003 est) English nameHamelinˈhæməlɪnˈhæmlɪn
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Police in Hameln said they were treating Sunday evening’s incident as an attempted killing.

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Although Mr. Pommerening said a new apartment had been found for her and her children, the family moved this month to a larger nearby town, Hameln.

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This is not the first time that Hamelin in Lower Saxony - called Hameln in Germany - has struggled with rats in recent years.

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Legend of the Pied Piper.—Hameln is famed as the scene of the myth of the piper of Hameln.

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“We don’t want that,” Merkel told members of her Christian Democratic Union today in Hameln, Germany.

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