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Hamelin
(redirected from Hamelin, Germany)

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Ha·meln  (hämln) also Ham·e·lin (hm-ln, hmln)
A city of northern Germany on the Weser River southwest of Hanover. An ancient Saxon settlement, it is a manufacturing and tourist center famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Population: 58,500.
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Noun1.Hamelin - a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper
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Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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Behman's spirit lures them like the whistle of the Pied Piper, or whatever it was that led 130 children in Hamelin, Germany out of town forever on June 26, 1284, while their parents were in church.
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