Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Bremen, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 7.4 km
Ascend 102 m
Descend 103 m

Explore Bremen in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in BremenIndividual Sights in Bremen

Sight 1: Fernsprechamt Hansa

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The former telephone exchange "Hansa" in Bremen - Östliche Vorstadt, district Hulsberg, Friedrich-Karl-Straße 55/corner of Bismarckstraße, is an administrative building. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Fernsprechamt „Hansa“ (DE), Website

1273 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: Friedenskirche

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The Friedenskirche from 1869/70 serves the Bremen Evangelical Peace Community in the Eastern Suburbs, Humboldtstraße 175.

Wikipedia: Friedenskirche (Bremen) (DE), Website

835 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Cinema im Ostertor

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Cinema im Ostertor Till F. Teenck / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Cinema im Ostertor, formerly Cinema Ostertor, is a cinema founded on 7 November 1969 as the first arthouse cinema in Germany on Ostertorsteinweg in Bremen, district Ostertor, the so-called quarter.

Wikipedia: Cinema im Ostertor (DE), Url, Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Wiener Hof

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Wiener Hof

The Wiener Hof ensemble in Bremen-Mitte, Ostertor district, Weberstraße 7 to 23 was built after 1900.

Wikipedia: Ensemble Wiener Hof (DE), Website

775 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat

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The Consular Agency of the United States in Bremen, also referred to as Consular Agency Bremen, was one of the American diplomatic missions to Germany until 2018. The unit offered limited services for U.S. citizens in areas including Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony. Despite that, services such as the issuing of visas or emergency passports were not provided, but can be obtained only from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate General in Frankfurt or Munich.

Wikipedia: Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen (EN), Website

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Ägina

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The larger-than-life bronze figure of the Great Reclining or Aegina by Gerhard Marcks, cast in 1966, was erected in 1968 on the slope of the Theaterberg in Bremen's ramparts as one of the first sculptural enrichments of the period after the Second World War. Inspired by Günter Busch, the director of the Kunsthalle, Bremen had turned its attention to the work of Marcks, perhaps the most important figurative sculptor in Germany in the post-war years, with the founding of a sculpture museum dedicated to his work and named after him, as well as two publicly exhibited free sculptures.

Wikipedia: Aegina (Gerhard Marcks) (DE), Website

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Haus Vorwärts

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The Vorwärts building at Sandstraße 4–5, right next to Bremen Cathedral, is one of the oldest buildings in Bremen's old town. Since 2005, the building has served as the House of Science and a showcase for science for the association of the same name. Prior to that, the Vorwärts association had its domicile here for over 120 years.

Wikipedia: Haus Vorwärts (DE), Website

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Die Glocke

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Die Glocke is a concert hall in the centre of Bremen, Germany. Standing on the site of a building from the Middle Ages, it was designed by Walter Görig (1885–1974) and completed in 1928. Its elegant Art Deco design and excellent acoustics have been praised by a number of artists including Herbert von Karajan.

Wikipedia: Die Glocke (Bremen) (EN), Website, Url

9 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Dom-Museum

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The Cathedral Museum in Bremen's St. Peter's Cathedral is an ecumenical museum for Bremen church history, which was founded in 1987 to accommodate finds from the medieval bishop's tombs of the cathedral. It is under the sponsorship of the Bremer Dom e.V. Foundation.

Wikipedia: Dom-Museum (Bremen) (DE), Website

13 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Saint Peter's Cathedral

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Bremen Cathedral, dedicated to St. Peter, is a church situated in the market square in the center of Bremen. The cathedral belongs to the Bremian Evangelical Church, a member of the umbrella organization Protestant Church in Germany. It is the previous cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Since 1973, it is protected by the monument protection act.

Wikipedia: Bremen Cathedral (EN), Opening Hours, Website

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich

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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.

Wikipedia: Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich (DE), Website

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Bremer Geschichtenhaus

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The Bremen Stichtenhaus in the Schnoor is a "lively" museum. As part of qualification and employment measures, unemployed people represent historical events and personalities of Bremen's life in historical backdrops from the middle of the 17th to the 20th century. In accordance with self-made costumes, accompany the visitors through the exhibition and tell you Bremen history and stories.

Wikipedia: Bremer Geschichtenhaus (DE), Website

343 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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The Heinrich Heine monument in Bremen-Mitte is at the Altenwall next to the Kunsthalle Bremen. It was set up in 2010 and is listed in the list of monuments and still images of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal (Bremen) (DE)

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Gerhard-Marcks-Haus

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The Gerhard Marcks Museum or Gerhard Marcks House is a museum in Bremen, Germany, inspired by the work of the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks. The museum exhibits contemporary sculpture, including the work of Marcks.

Wikipedia: Gerhard Marcks House (EN), Website

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Kriegsgefangenendenkmal

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Herbert Kubica's prisoner-of-war memorial in Bremen's ramparts was dedicated in 1934 to the soldiers who died in captivity during the First World War. Since 1951, an extension of the inscription has also commemorated the prisoners of war of the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Kriegsgefangenendenkmal (Bremen) (DE), Website

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Kriegerehrenmal Altmannshöhe

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The memorial for the Bremen, who died in 1914-1918, the fallen of the Gerstenberg division and the Freikorps Caspari is on the Altmannhöhe at the eastern foothills of the Bremen ramparts. It was designed in 1933 by the sculptor Ernst Gorsemann and the landscape architect Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann and inaugurated in 1935.

Wikipedia: Ehrenmal für die im Ersten Weltkrieg gefallenen Bremer (DE), Website

977 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 17: H.J. Kratschke

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H.J. Kratschke Chris Hartmann / CC BY-SA 3.0

The H.-J. Kratschke is a former distress cruiser from the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecker (DGZRS) of the 19 m class, which in 1969 by the Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard in Lemwerder under shipyard no. 6313 was built. The DGZRS-internal name was KrS 03.

Wikipedia: H.-J. Kratschke (DE)

946 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 18: Theater am Leibnizplatz

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The Bremer Shakespeare Company e. V. is a theatre collective in the legal form of a non-profit association with its headquarters in Bremen.

Wikipedia: Bremer shakespeare company (DE), Website

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Gymn. Oberstufe am Leibnizplatz

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Gymn. Oberstufe am Leibnizplatz

Barracks IV of the Infantry Regiment "Bremen" in Bremen, Neustadt district, Neustadtscontrescarpe 49/51 and Schulstraße 11 were built around 1890. In 2010, Barracks IV was listed as a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Kaserne IV des Infanterieregiments Bremen (DE), Website

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