Pied Piper of Hamelin
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany.
1592 painting of the Pied Piper copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin
Postcard "Gruss aus Hameln" featuring the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1902
1909 Maxfield Parrish mural of the Pied Piper of Hamelin at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco
The rats of Hamelin: Illustration by Kate Greenaway for Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Burgomaster
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Burgomaster is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch burgemees
Pied Piper of Hamelin
…in multicoloured ("pied") clothing appears, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promises the burgermeister a solution to their problem with the rats. The burgermeister, in turn, promises to pay him 1,000 guilders for the removal of the rats. The piper accepts and plays his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River…
The Burgomaster's Family, possibly painted by Gerard Donck c. 1640
Manneken Pis dressed as a burgomaster from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
Caption of a Bürgermeisteramt from 1505 (burgomaster Erhart Huck of Bozen, South Tyrol)
Arnold von Brauweiler, a German burgomaster, known in German as Bürgermeister