41 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 41 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. U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer
German submarine Wilhelm Bauer is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy (Kriegsmarine), completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished, and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche
The Bürgermeister-Smidt Memorial Church in Bremerhaven belongs to a congregation of Lutherans and Reformed members of the United Churches. Belonging to the Bremen Evangelical Church from the very beginning, it is still the only parish of this regional church in Bremerhaven. The correct name of the "Great Church" is United Protestant Community to the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church. Since 1927, Bremerhaven's main church, like the main shopping street, has been named after Mayor Johann Smidt.
Wikipedia: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche (DE), Website
6. Zollamt Rotersand
The Rotersand customs office in Lehe (Bremerhaven) is located at Franziusstraße 1, at the end of Rickmersstraße and the mayor-Smidt-Straße. It was the main entrance to the Kaiserhafen and the Nordhafen. Freight transport is now being led via Speckenbüttel. The office is named after the Roter Sand lighthouse. The municipal tram drove a single -track curve from Rickmersstraße to the citizens at the office. > The building was placed under Bremen monument protection in 2009.
7. Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule
The Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde is a secondary school centre. It has a secondary school branch and a secondary school branch in which students can obtain either the middle school degree or the qualification of vocational education. Since the school year 2011/12, Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule has been an upper school. The school was named after the post-war period in Germany after Wilhelm Raabe, one of the most important representatives of literary realism.
8. FMS Gera
The Gera is a museum ship of the Historical Museum of Bremerhaven. The fishing engine vessel built in 1959/60 at the Peene Shipyard in Wolgast, which received the fishing identification “ROS 223”, has been part of the deep sea fishing fleet of the Rostock fish combinate since 1961 and is today the last side catcher still preserved in Germany. Since 1990, Gera has been a floating museum for deep sea fishing in the fishing port (Bremerhaven).
9. Wohnwasserturm Wulsdorf
The Wulsdorf Water Tower in Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf was built in 1927 and served as a water tower and at the same time as a residential building. The 33 meter high reinforced concrete construction was the first high -rise on the Unterweser at the construction period and has been a listed building since 1978. In addition to the water towers in Bremerhaven-Lehe and the Geestemünde water tower, it is the fourth preserved water tower in Bremerhaven.
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. 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 barrel yard belonged to the Ton 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.
12. Busse-Denkmal
The bus monument is a memorial in Bremerhaven, Geestemünde district on the left bank of the Geeste at the foot of the eastern bridgehead of the old Geestbrücke. It was built in 1936 according to a design by the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger. It is reminiscent of the commissioning of the fish steamer Sagitta by the shipowner Friedrich Busse in 1885, which marks the beginning of modern deep sea fishing in Germany.
13. 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.
14. Kreuzkirche
The Evangelical-Lutheran Kreuzkirche Bremerhaven was built on the corner of Rampenstraße/Keilstraße in 1863 and replaced in 1877 by a slightly larger church in the same place, which was destroyed in 1944 in World War II. In 1952, a former Völkerkundemuseum was converted into a third Kreuzkirche at the Bgm.-Martin-Donandt-Platz, which thus became the first post-war church of Bremerhaven.
15. Portal der Rickmerswerft
The Rickmers shipyard was founded in 1834 by Rickmers Clasen Rickmers in Bremerhaven. Later, the company was expanded by a shipping company and various rice mills. The company's offspring, based on the fifth generation founder, was sold to the shipping company Zeaborn in 2016 and 2018, by Bertram R. C. Rickmers and Erck Rickmers, were sold to the shipping company Zeaborn in 2018.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Geeste Südmolenfeuer
The lighting fire are on both sides of the mouth of the Geeste, northern in Bremerhaven-Mitte, southern in Geestemünde. The towers secure the entrance to the geeste and the fishing port. In the illuminated fire directory of the Federal Office for Sea shipping and hydrography, the two molen fire bear the names Geeste, N and Geeste, p.
19. 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.
20. Seefalke
The Seefalke is a former recovery tractor, which was built in 1924 at the Tecklenborg shipyard for the shipping company W. Schuchmann. It is an exhibit of the German Shipping Museum in Bremerhaven. The tractor has been a listed building since 2005 as part of the cultural monument "German Shipping Museum and Museum Fleet".
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. Wasserstandsanzeiger
The water level indicator Bremerhaven is located at the south end of the Weser dike in Mitte (Bremerhaven). He informed ship leaders on the tidal status of the Weser estuary. Like the mayor-Smidt-Memorial Church and the "Lange Heinrich", the water level indicator is (again) the landmark of Bremerhaven.
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. 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.
25. Bahnhof Lehe
Bremerhaven-Lehe passenger station or usually the Leher train station or train station Lehe is a passage station on the route kilometer 187.8 of the Wunstorf-Bremerhaven seaport. The train station is located in Bremerhaven, Lehe district at the Mayor-Kirschbaum-Platz and dates from 1914.
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. 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.
28. 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
29. 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.
30. Sankt Marien
The St. Church of Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the centre of Bremerhaven. It is part of the parish of Hl. Heart of Jesus Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Dean of Bremerhaven of the Diocese of Hildesheim and is dedicated to the immaculate conception of Mary.
Wikipedia: Maria Unbefleckte Empfängnis (Bremerhaven-Mitte) (DE), Website
31. 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.
Wikipedia: Wasserturm Bremerhaven-Lehe (Hafenstraße) (DE), Website
32. Grönland
The Greenland is the oldest of Germany's sailing maritime ship. Built in Norway in 1867, the Greenland was the ship of the first German North Pole Expedition in 1868. It is now part of the fleet of the German Shipping Museum in Bremerhaven.
33. Zionkirche
The Zionkirche Weddewarden in Bremerhaven-Weddewarden, Wurster Straße 404, was built in 1875 to 1877 according to plans by August Schwägermann and Carl Pogge (Tower). The building has been under Bremen's monument protection since 2015.
34. Sankt Ansgar
The St.Sgar Church is the Roman Catholic Church of the Leherheide district of Bremerhaven on Mecklenburger Weg. It belongs to the parish of St. Herz Jesu Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Dean's Office in Bremerhaven in the Hildesheim diocese.
Wikipedia: St. Ansgar (Bremerhaven-Leherheide) (DE), Website
35. Unterfeuer Bremerhaven
The Bremerhaven Beacon is one of two lighthouses of the Bremerhaven Beacon Line. Together with Bremerhaven's upper light, the Simon-Lösch-Lighthouse, the lower light shows the way for incoming and outgoing ships on the Weser.
36. Altwulsdorfer Schule
The Wulsdorfer School, Sandbredenstraße 11, also called Alt-Wulsdorf school; was built in Wulsdorf in 1866 and is the oldest preserved school building in Bremerhaven. The building is under Bremen's monument protection.
37. Villa Schlotterhose
The villa buses and villa Schlotterhose in Bremerhaven - Wulsdorf, Weserstraße 237, was built in 1894/95 according to plans by Georg Fäsenfeldt. The building has been under Bremen's monument protection since 2001.
38. Historisches Museum Bremerhaven
The Historical Museum Bremerhaven-formerly Morgenstern Museum-lies 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. Kunstmuseum
The Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven is a museum of art in Bremerhaven, Germany, located in the Bremerhaven district, in the Bremerhaven district, and is located in the Karlsburg district, at Theodor-Heuss-Platz.
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