37 Sights in Stadtgebiet Bremen, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in Stadtgebiet Bremen1. Fangturm
In the 10th century, only the cathedral district was walled in as a cathedral castle. From 1229 onwards, a circular wall was built around the entire old town, semicircular on the land side. In the 13th century, Bremen expanded westwards. From 1307 onwards, the new Stephanivorstadt was given a wall on the land side only. In the 15th century, the first brick phase of Bremen's architectural history, the city wall on the Weser side in the port areas of Schlachte and Tiefer was successively replaced by the gable sides of brick warehouses, so that only the slaughter gates remained of the original wall at the Schlachte. The Stephaniviertel, on the other hand, did not receive a wall on the Weser side until the middle of the 16th century. After that, in 1551, the wall between the old parts of the city and the Stephaniviertel could fall.
2. Haus der Sieben Faulen
The House of the Seven Lazy Brothers is a historic building in Bremen, Germany, completed in 1927. With a name based on a local legend, the building located in Böttcherstraße in the old town was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius to a design by Bremen architects Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge. The first version of the house was home to the advertising department of Roselius's coffee company and the Deutscher Werkbund association of craftsmen. When it was rebuilt in 1954 the new design was based on a traditional local story.
3. Ölmühle
The oil mill of Franz Köcheln was a windmill located on the St. Stephen's Bulwark west of Bremen's old town. The remains of its foundations made of large-format bricks were discovered in 2012 during an emergency excavation. The mill, which belonged to Franz Daniel Köcheln, stood in the area of the Weser railway station, built between 1857 and 1859, in front of the former gates of the Stephaniviertel in the far west of the old town. From 1810 to before 1863, it processed rapeseed into rapeseed oil.
4. Antikolonialdenkmal
The Anti-Colonial Monument is a memorial in Bremen in the shape of a brick elephant. It is located in Nelson Mandela Park in the Schwachhausen district, Bürgerweide-Barkhof opposite the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium and close to the main train station. It was originally erected in 1931 as a Reich Colonial Monument of Honour, inaugurated in July 1932 and from then on was considered a central German colonial monument by the colonial movement. In 1989 it was rededicated as an anti-colonial monument.
5. Valentin submarine pens
The Valentin submarine factory is a protective shelter on the Weser River at the Bremen suburb of Rekum, built to protect German U-boats during World War II. The factory was under construction from 1943 to March 1945 using forced labour, but was damaged by air-raids and unfinished by the end of the war. The Valentin factory was the largest fortified U-boat facility in Germany, and was second only to those built at Brest in France.
6. Ratskeller
The Bremen Ratskeller is the council wine cellar of the Townhall of Bremen. Since it was erected in the year 1405, German wines were stored and sold there. With its history over 600 years the Ratskeller of Bremen is one of the oldest wine cellars of Germany, furthermore the oldest wine barrel of Germany, a wine from Rüdesheim which is dated 1653, is stored here.
7. Überseemuseum
The Overseas Museum in Bremen is a Natural History and ethnographic museum in northern Germany. In an integrated exhibition of Nature, Culture and Trading, the museum presents aspects of overseas regions with permanent exhibitions relating to Asia, South Pacific/Oceania, Americas and Africa. The building is protected by the monument protection act.
8. Overbeck-Museum
The Overbeck Museum is located in the listed “Alten Packhaus” and “Kito-Haus” in the Alten Hafenstraße in Bremen-Vegesack. It is the only museum in the Bremen city area dedicated to one of the founding fathers of the artist colony Worpswede, the painter Fritz Overbeck (1869–1909), and his wife, Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (1869–1937).
9. Suding und Soeken
The Suding & Soeken building is a gabled house at No. 28 Langenstraße in Bremen, Germany. Referred to as a Kaufmannshaus or Kontorhaus, it is one of the city's few historic merchant houses to survive the war undamaged. It is noted for its projecting Renaissance bay window and its two-tiered Baroque stairway ascending from the hallway.
10. Balge
The Balge was a short branch of the Weser on its eastern side, running through what is now the centre of Bremen. As it served as a harbour in the early Middle Ages, it significantly contributed to Bremen's development as a port. The river gradually narrowed until in 1608, it was canalised. In 1838, it was completely filled with earth.
11. Seenotrettungskreuzer Bremen
The Bremen (III) was a former twin-screw motor lifeboat (MRB) of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS), which had been converted into the first sea rescue cruiser in the early 1950s. The aim of this test cruiser was to prove that the concept of a daughter boat (TB) had proven itself in sea rescue operations.
12. The Atlantis House
The Atlantis House on Böttcherstraße in the old town of Bremen in the north of Germany is an interesting example of German architecture in the interwar period. Designed by Bernhard Hoetger, it was completed in 1931. After suffering serious war damage, it was rebuilt in 1965 with a new facade designed by Ewald Mataré.
13. Essighaus
The Essighaus was an impressive gabled town house in the old town of Bremen in northern Germany. One of the city's finest examples of Renaissance architecture, it was almost completely destroyed by bombing in 1943. The entrance flanked by projecting bay windows is the only part of the building which has been restored.
14. Bräutigam
Since the late Middle Ages, the Bremen Powder Towers have been the name given to three large round towers in Bremen, in which the powder stocks, weapons and ammunition needed in the event of war were stored. In addition, prisoners were also held on the ground floors of the powder towers.
15. Schuppen 2
Schuppen 2 is a listed industrial building in Bremen, Walle district, Überseestadt district, Hoerneckestraße 5 to 37 at Europahafen. It was built in 1951/52 according to plans by Chief Building Officer Jung (Port Construction Authority) during the reconstruction of Bremen's ports.
16. Villa Schröder
Villa Schröder is a bourgeois residential building in Bremen, Vegesack district, Vegesack district, Weserstraße 78a/79, on the high bank of the Weser. The villa was built in 1887 according to plans by Ludwig Klingenberg and Hugo Weber and has been a listed building since 1996.
17. Haus des Glockenspiels
The Glockenspiel House is a building in Bremen in the north of Germany. With its 30 bells of Meissen porcelain, the carillon (Glockenspiel) chimes three times a day while wooden panels depicting pioneering seafarers and aviators appear on a rotating mechanism inside the tower.
18. Weinkontor
On the Muggenburg of the wine trading company Reidemeister & Ulrichs in Bremen, Walle district, Überseestadt district, Auf der Muggenburg 7 at Europahafen, built in 1951 according to plans by Wilhelm Wortmann and Erik Schott, during the reconstruction of Bremen's ports.
Wikipedia: Kontorhaus und Hafenspeicher Auf der Muggenburg (DE), Website
19. Villa Bischoff
The Villa Bischoff is located in Bremen, district Vegesack, district Vegesack, Weserstraße 84, on the high bank of the Weser. It was built in 1887 according to plans by Ludwig Klingenberg and Hugo Weber. The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1984.
20. Fragment
The fragment is a sculpture ensemble in Bremen-Mitte, on Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz near the House of the Reich, which was erected in 1991 on the 50th anniversary of Rudolf Hilferding's death. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
21. Loriot-Sofa
The Loriot Sofa as a bronze monument is a sculpture in Bremen-Mitte in front of the entrance to the Radio Bremen broadcasting centre on the Diepenau. It was erected in 2013 and commemorates Vicco von Bülow, whose TV series Loriot was created on Radio Bremen.
22. Pablo Neruda
The bronze bust of Pablo Neruda in Bremen-Horn-Lehe on the campus of the University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Straße, was erected in 2014 as a foundation of the Republic of Chile and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
23. Havenhaus
The Havenhaus in Vegesack is a listed building in the street Am Vegesacker Hafen Nr. 12 in Bremen, Germany. Built in the middle of the 17th century as the official residence of the harbour master of Vegesack, it is now used as a restaurant and hotel.
24. Schwarzer Leuchtturm
The black lighthouse Warfleth is a former beacon on the Unterweser. It stands on the peninsula vicinher sand, named after Warfleth, a district of Berne in the Wesermarsch district. The old Oberfeuer Lemwerder is also known as the "black lighthouse".
25. Tabakbörse
The Bremen Tobacco Exchange building in Bremen, Walle district, Überseestadt district, Speicherhof 1 / corner north of the Europahafen, was built in 1961/62 according to plans by Erik Schott during the reconstruction of Bremen's ports.
26. Haus der Stadtsparkasse
Haus der Stadtsparkasse is a Rococo landmark on the "Marktplatz" in Bremen, Germany. It was completed in the 1950s combining the historic front gable from another site with the more recent architecture of the remainder of the building.
27. Speicher I
Speicher I in Bremen-Walle, Überseestadt district, Konsul-Smidt-Straße 8b–j, is one of Bremen's most important buildings. The building was listed as a Bremen cultural monument in 2006. At the Bremen Monument Preservation Award
28. Mausoleum Knoop
The Knoop Mausoleum is located in Bremen, Walle district, Walle district, Im Freien Meer 32, at the Waller Cemetery. It was built until 1880 according to plans by the architect Gustav Runge and the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp.
29. Kinetisches Objekt
The Kinetic Object is a sculpture that stands in Bremen - Mitte an der Weser, Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke/Martinistraße/ corner of Balgebrückstraße. It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
30. Argo-Haus
The Argo shipping company was a major German shipping company based in Bremen, Germany. The focus of the activities was on scheduled services within Europe, in particular to Finland, Great Britain and the Levant.
31. BV 2 Vegesack
The Vegesack is an iron sailing logger that was launched in 1895 at the Bremer Vulkan shipyard as a herring logger and bears the fishing number BV 2. Since 2018, the ship has been listed as a movable monument.
32. Metalhenge
Metalhenge is the name of an astronomical viewpoint and art installation in Bremen, Germany, located at a height of about 40 meters on the eastern, disused part of the Blockland landfill in the Walle district.
33. Wätjens Park
Wätjens Park, also known as Wätjens Landgut or Wätjens Garten, is a landscape park around Wätjens Castle with former farm buildings and other buildings in the Bremen districts of Blumenthal and Vegesack.
34. Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich
The Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich in Bremen in the Schnoor district, on the corner of Lange Wieren and Am Landherrnamt streets, is a restaurant named in memory of Emperor Frederick III, the 99-day emperor.
35. Rekumer Mühle
The Rekumer Mühle is a windmill in Rekum in the Blumenthal district of Bremen. Unlike four other well-preserved windmills in the city of Bremen, the mill is not a station on the Lower Saxony Mill Road.
36. Simón Bolívar
The bust of Simón-Bolívar is located in Bremen-Horn-Lehe. It was erected in 2012 on the grounds of the University of Bremen and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
37. Agnes-Heineken-Denkmal
The Agnes-Heineken monument is a natural stone monument in Bremen-Mitte, at the Bremen vocational training center, which was set up in 1957 in honor of the Bremen teacher Agnes Heineken (1872–1954).
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