43 Sights in Bremerhaven, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Bremerhaven, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 43 sights are available in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Bremerhaven1. Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost
The Klimahaus Bremerhaven is a scientific exhibition house in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is located at the Old Harbour and is part of the Havenwelten; its shape resembles a boat. The exhibition offers the possibility of a virtual journey around the Earth in a north-south direction at about the longitude of the starting point, 8°34′30" east of Greenwich, and in the extension over the South Pole in a northerly direction along longitude 171 to 172 degrees west. The approximately 18,800 m² world of knowledge and experience takes up the topic of climate and climate change in three exhibition areas. The operator is the Klimahaus operating company. Since 2004, Arne Dunker has been the director. Around 600,000 people visited the exhibition annually until 2014 and around 425,000 in 2018.
2. Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum
The German Maritime Museum is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president of Germany Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971. In 2000, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the museum, the Hansekogge, a ship constructed around 1380 that was found in the Weser river in 1962, was presented to the public after having undergone a lengthy process of conservation in a large preservative-filled basin.
3. Kaiserschleuse Ostfeuer
The Kaiserschleuse lighthouse is located to the east of the pier at the entrance to the Kaiserhafen in Bremerhaven. The Kaiserschleuse Ostfeuer, which is still in operation, was planned in 1900 by the harbour director Rudolf Rudloff and is the northernmost lighthouse in Seestadt. The height of the building is 15 m, the height of the beacon is 10 m. In size and appearance, it resembles the Moritzburg lighthouse, which is more than 100 years older. The lighthouse carries a fog bell that is still in operation.
4. Wohnwasserturm Wulsdorf
The residential water tower Wulsdorf in Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf was built in 1927 and served as a water tower and at the same time as a residential building. The 33-metre-high reinforced concrete building was the first high-rise building on the Lower Weser at the time of construction and has been a listed building since 1978. It is the fourth surviving water tower in Bremerhaven, along with the water towers in Bremerhaven-Lehe and the Geestemünde water tower. See also List of water towers in Bremerhaven.
5. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule
The Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde is a secondary school centre. It has a grammar school branch and a secondary school branch, where students can obtain either the intermediate school leaving certificate or the vocational training entrance qualification. Since the 2011/12 school year, the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule has been a secondary school. The school was named after Wilhelm Raabe, one of the most important representatives of literary realism in post-war Germany.
6. Portal der Rickmerswerft
The nucleus of the Rickmers shipping company was the Rickmers shipyard, founded in 1834 by Rickmer Clasen Rickmers in Bremerhaven. Later, the company was expanded to include a shipping company and various rice mills. The legally completely independent shipping companies operated by the two brothers Bertram R. C. Rickmers and Erck Rickmers, descendants of the company founder in the fifth generation, were sold to the Zeaborn shipping company in 2016 and 2018 respectively.
7. Zollamt Rotersand
The Rotersand customs office in Lehe (Bremerhaven) is located at Franziusstraße 1, at the end of Rickmersstraße and Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße. It was the main entrance to the Imperial Harbour and the North Harbour. Today, freight traffic is routed via Speckenbüttel. The Amt is named after the Red Sand Lighthouse. The municipal tram ran a single-track curve from Rickmersstraße into the Bürger. > In 2009, the building was placed under Bremen monument protection.
8. Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche
The Mayor-Smidt Memorial Church in Bremerhaven belongs to an existing community of the united churches from Lutherans and Reformed. Belonging to the Bremen Evangelical Church right from the start, it is still the only parish of this state church in Bremerhaven. The correct name of the "Great Church" is the United Protestant Community to the Mayor-Smidt-Memorial Church. Bremerhaven's main church has been named after Mayor Johann Smidt since 1927.
Wikipedia: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche (DE), Website
9. Schulschiff Deutschland
Schulschiff Deutschland is a German full-rigged sail training ship, maintained as a historical monument and museum ship. She was employed as a school ship for the merchant marine beginning in 1927. The ship is moored at the Neuer Hafen in Bremerhaven, in the Federal State of Bremen, Germany. Since the name Deutschland was at the time of its construction already assigned to an unbuilt naval warship, its official name is Schulschiff Deutschland.
10. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Bremerhaven district of Geestemünde, between Buchtstraße and Grashoffstraße near the main train station. The neo-Gothic hall church was built in 1910/11 according to plans by Heinrich Flügel and consecrated on 17 September 1911 by Bishop Adolf Bertram. Her parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Bremerhaven in the diocese of Hildesheim.
Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bremerhaven-Geestemünde) (DE), Website
11. FMS Gera
The Gera is a museum ship of the Historical Museum Bremerhaven. The fishing motor vessel, built in 1959/60 at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast, which received the fishing registration "ROS 223", has been part of the deep-sea fishing fleet of the Rostock Fish Combine since 1961 and is today the last surviving side vessel in Germany. Since 1990, the Gera has been a floating museum for deep-sea fishing in the fishing port (Bremerhaven).
12. Busse-Denkmal
The Busse Monument is a memorial in Bremerhaven, district of Geestemünde on the left bank of the Geeste at the foot of the eastern bridgehead of the Old Geeste Bridge. It was built in 1936 according to a design by the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger. It commemorates the commissioning of the fishing steamer Sagitta by the shipowner Friedrich Busse in 1885, which marks the beginning of modern deep-sea fishing in Germany.
13. Tonnenschuppen
The Bremerhaven tonne yard maintains and deploys the navigation signs in the Outer Weser. Located at the mouth of the Geeste in Bremerhaven, the tonne yard belonged to the Tonne and Beacon Office in Bremen, founded in 1876, and after the Second World War to the Bremerhaven Water and Shipping Office (WSA). Since 8 April 2019, it has been part of the newly created Weser-Jade-North Sea Waterways and Shipping Authority.
14. Kreuzkirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross in Bremerhaven was built in 1863 on the corner of Rampenstraße and Keilstraße and replaced in 1877 by a slightly larger church on the same site, which was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War. In 1952, a former ethnographic museum on Bgm.-Martin-Donandt-Platz was converted into the third Kreuzkirche, making it the first post-war church in Bremerhaven.
15. Auswandererdenkmal
The Auswandererdenkmal is a statue in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, that depicts an emigrant family. Cast in bronze, it shows an emigrant family with the father looking forward toward the New World and the mother looking back as she leaves the old country. The statue stands by one of the city's main dikes, the Weserdeich, on the site of one of the original docks from which early emigrants departed.
16. Geeste Südmolenfeuer
The Geeste estuary lighthouses are located on both sides of the mouth of the Geeste, the northern one in Bremerhaven-Mitte, the southern one in Geestemünde. The towers secure the entrance to the Geeste and the fishing port. In the lighthouse directory of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, the two pier lights bear the names Geeste, N and Geeste, S.
17. Radarturm
The Bremerhaven Radar Tower is a 106-metre reinforced concrete tower located in Bremerhaven, Germany. The radar tower, which was constructed between 1962 and 1965, accommodates numerous transmitting plants for maritime radio purposes, in addition to its radar equipment. A viewing platform is situated at the 60 metre level, and is accessible to the public.
18. Deutsches Auswandererhaus
The German Emigration Center is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.
19. Wasserstandsanzeiger
The Bremerhaven water level indicator is located at the southern end of the Weser dike in Mitte (Bremerhaven). He informed ship guides about the tide level of the Weser estuary. Like the Bürgermeister-Smidt Memorial Church and the "Lange Heinrich" in the past, the water level indicator is (again) the landmark of Bremerhaven.
20. Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof
Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Bremerhaven in northwestern Germany. It is the main railway hub for the city, offering regional connections to Bremen, Osnabrück, Cuxhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude. Museal services on the line to Bad Bederkesa also call at the station during weekends in summer.
21. Simon-Loschen-Leuchtturm
The Bremerhaven Lighthouse, also known as the Simon Loschen Tower or Loschen Lighthouse, is the rear light of a pair of leading lights at the New Harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. It is the oldest operative lighthouse on the mainland along Germany's North Sea shore and is counted among the city's landmarks.
22. Seefalke
The Seefalke is a former salvage tug built in 1924 at the Tecklenborg shipyard for the shipping company W. Schuchmann. It is an exhibit of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. The tug has been a listed building since 2005 as part of the cultural monument "German Maritime Museum and Museum Fleet".
23. Thieles Garten
Thiele's Garden is a small, 20,000 m² park in the Leherheide district of Bremerhaven. The ensemble includes exotic and native trees, several ponds, numerous sculptures, a bog cottage and a Moorish-style house. Originally, the complex was a private sculpture garden of the Thiele family of artists.
24. Schwoonscher Wasserturm
The water tower of Bremerhaven-Lehe is located in today's city park on Hafenstraße. The more than 150-year-old building from the early days of Bremerhaven's water supply – also known as the Schwoon Water Tower after its builder Melchior Schwoon. See also List of water towers in Bremerhaven.
Wikipedia: Wasserturm Bremerhaven-Lehe (Hafenstraße) (DE), Website
25. Lloyd Gymnasium
The Pestalozzis School Bremerhaven in Bremerhaven - Lehe am Leher Tor, Wiener Straße 3, was inaugurated in 1910 as a double-fold school for boys and girls. She later became a secondary school or a secondary school and is now a primary school. It is named after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
26. Pauluskirche
St. Paul's Church is a church building in Bremerhaven - Lehe, Hafenstraße 124. It is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Michael's and St. Paul's parishes, which merged in 2000. St. Michael's Church with the parish hall was then converted into a joint community centre.
27. Sankt Marien
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city center of Bremerhaven, Germany. It belongs to the parish of the Holy Heart of Jesus Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Bremerhaven deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim and is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Wikipedia: Maria Unbefleckte Empfängnis (Bremerhaven-Mitte) (DE), Website
28. Welle
The wave is a steam ship built in 1915 at Atlas-Werke Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen for the construction office for the Unterweserkorrektion. This straightening was one of the largest hydro-construction projects in the Ems Empire in addition to the Oder Ems Canal.
29. Altes Kraftwerk
The list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Häfen lists all cultural monuments in the Bremen district of Hafen. This also includes the district of Stadtbremisches Überseehafengebiet Bremerhaven, which is surrounded by Bremerhaven and has its own table here.
Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Bremen-Häfen (DE), Website
30. Hans Lüken
The Hans Lüken was a 19 m class sea rescue cruiser of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS), which was built in 1969 by the Schweers shipyard in Bardenfleth under yard no. 6409. The internal designation of the DGzRS was KRS 04.
31. Bahnhof Lehe
Bremerhaven-Lehe passenger station is a through station on line kilometre 187.8 of the Wunstorf–Bremerhaven seaport railway. The station is located in Bremerhaven, district Lehe at Bürgermeister-Kirschbaum-Platz and dates back to 1914.
32. Zionkirche
The Zion Church Weddewarden in Bremerhaven-Weddewarden, Wurster Straße 404, was built between 1875 and 1877 according to plans by August Schwägermann and Carl Pogge (tower). The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 2015.
33. Leher Wasserturm
The water tower of Bremerhaven-Lehe on the Langener Landstraße – also called "Dickschädel" by the locals – is the third oldest of four water towers on today's Bremerhaven territory. See also List of water towers in Bremerhaven.
Wikipedia: Wasserturm Bremerhaven-Lehe (Langener Landstraße) (DE), Website
34. Sankt Ansgar
The St. Ansgar Church is the Roman Catholic church in the Bremerhaven district of Leherheide on Mecklenburger Weg. It belongs to the parish of St. Herz Jesu Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Bremerhaven deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim.
Wikipedia: St. Ansgar (Bremerhaven-Leherheide) (DE), Website
35. Historisches Museum Bremerhaven
The Bremerhaven Historical Museum – formerly the Morgenstern Museum – is located between the Old Geeste Bridge and the Kennedy Bridge on the south bank of the Geeste and shows the history of Bremerhaven and its surroundings.
36. Wasserturm am Geestemünder Neumarkt
The Geestemünde water tower in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde, An der Mühle 33 / corner of Bülkenstraße / Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, was built in 1891 according to plans by Walter Pfeffer. See also List of water towers in Bremerhaven.
37. Kunstmuseum
The Bremerhaven Art Museum combined with the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven of the Bremerhaven Art Association in the Seestadt Bremerhaven is an art museum in the Bremerhaven-Mitte district at Karlsburg 1 at Theodor-Heuss-Platz.
38. Altwulsdorfer Schule
The Wulsdorf School, Sandbredenstraße 11, also known as the Old Wulsdorf School; was built in Wulsdorf in 1866 and is the oldest surviving school building in Bremerhaven. The building is a listed building in Bremen.
39. Villa Schlotterhose
The Villa Busse or Villa Schlotterhose in Bremerhaven - Wulsdorf, Weserstraße 237, was built in 1894/95 according to plans by Georg Fäsenfeldt. The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 2001.
40. Zoo am Meer
The Bremerhaven Zoo is located next to the river Weser and exhibits mainly species which live in the water or in northern environments; exceptions are, for instance, chimpanzees and White-headed marmosets.
41. Gesundheitsamt und Umweltschutzamt Bremerhaven
The Lehe Hospital in Bremerhaven-Lehe, Wurster Straße 49/Eckernfeldstraße 5, was a hospital from 1906 to 1976 and then became the seat of the health department and later also of other municipal offices.
42. Unterfeuer Bremerhaven
The Unterfeuer Bremerhaven is one of two lighthouses of the Bremerhaven guideline. Together with the Bremerhaven Oberfeuer, the Simon-Loschen-Luchturm, the underfeuer shows the way down the Weser ships.
43. Petruskirche
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter's Church in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde, Grünhöfe district, Haberstraße 12–18 and Braunstraße 10, was built according to plans by Carsten Schröck and Gerd Krüger.
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