Why is it called Hamburg did they have heaps of pigs or something?

    
Why is it called Hamburg did they have heaps of pigs or something?
The first historical name of the modern city is, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva. But the city takes its name from the first permanent building on the site, a fortress ordered to be built by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808. The castle was built on rocky ground in a marsh between the River Alster and the River Elbe as a defence against Slavic incursion. The castle was named Hammaburg, where burg means fortress. The origin of the Hamma term remains uncertain, as does the exact location of the fortress.

Hamburg's official name is the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg). It reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and also to the fact that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

  Oh yeah? Then why are they called Hamburgs when there is no ham in them?

By the middle of the 19th century people in the port city of Hamburg, Germany, enjoyed a form of pounded beef called Hamburg steak. The large numbers of Germans who migrated to North America during this time probably brought the dish and its name along with them. The entrée may have appeared on an American menu as early as 1836, although the first recorded use of Hamburg steak is not found until 1884. The variant form hamburger steak, using the German adjective Hamburger meaning "from Hamburg," first appears in a Walla Walla, Washington, newspaper in 1889. By 1902 we find the first description of a Hamburg steak close to our conception of the hamburger, namely a recipe calling for ground beef mixed with onion and pepper. By then the hamburger was on its way, to be followed-much later-by the shortened form burger, used in forming cheeseburger and the names of other variations on the basic burger, as well as on its own.

Whats with the town embalm thing, is that the Fortress of Ham?

It is a symbol of St. Michaelis church perhaps the most famous church in the city of Ham. It is the third one to be built on this location. In 1750 the lawd all mighty did smight thyn church and it was struck with lightning and burned to the ground. It has been repaired a couple of time since especially in WW2. Saint Micheal is generally viewed as the field commander of the army of God in The Bible.