wisby

Updated: June 19, 2025

We shall afterwards have occasion to notice it in our view of the progress of the Hanseatic League. As the commerce of the League encreased and extended in the Baltic, it became necessary to fix on some depôt. Wisby, a city in the island of Gothland, was chosen for this purpose, as being most central.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

The union purchased and controlled settlements in London, the so-called Steelyard near London Bridge, at Wisby, Bergen, and the far-off Novgorod in Russia. They managed to monopolize nearly the whole trade on the Baltic and North Sea, either through treaties or the influence that they were able to bring to bear. The League made war on the pirates and did much to reduce the dangers of traffic.

James Harvey Robinson - An Introduction to the History of Western Europe