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After the restless 13th century Bornholm was a quiet, safe Danish island within the next two hundred years, was put under the authority of the ore diocesan town, however, directly in Lund.
Despite this rough power these have not been such bad years.
The Hanseatic towns extended their influence in the complete baltic area and introduced new rules for trade and voyage.

The bornholmischen coasts towns started to grow up. Rønne, Nexø and Aakirkeby got town charters in the 14th century. Hasle and Svaneke followed.
Each other little coastal places arose and disappeared, e.g. Frennehavn at Svaneke and Kragkås on Hammerknuden, with its little chapel, such as the St. Annen chapel of Gudhjem.
The Hanseatic towns set up in guilds characteristic of the towns and into altars characteristic of the little chapels.
The herring fishing flourished and the island came to himself again.
Of course this did not remain unnoticed.

The pirate fleets of the Baltic Sea robbed ships, made regularly shore leave and looted and sacked the one, soon this one soon other part of the island.
The country plague, the black death, also beat Bornholm with their death hand.

Himself but the great war catastrophes failed to appear and Bornholmer like strange guild brothers fought faithful by the chances of a bad time and those obstacles which was made from it for forwards efforts and Emporkommen.

Among other things the island was strengthened by the erection of the Freimannsinstitution (Mason), which started out from the squires of the archbishop to inside. One became type more blackly nobility, an aristocracy which maintained the connection to agriculture, voyage and trade from this, however, gained in the independence and energy.