Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #17 in Bremen, Germany

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 12.3 km
Ascend 132 m
Descend 135 m

Experience Bremen in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BremenIndividual Sights in Bremen

Sight 1: Überseemuseum

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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.

Wikipedia: Overseas Museum, Bremen (EN), Website

580 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Postamt 5

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Postamt 5

The Bremen 5 post office, also called the main post office 5, was the central building of the Hanover Oberpostdirektion near the main train station in Bremen and long years of one of the largest buildings in the Hanseatic city. From 1996, large parts of the house stood empty for a long time and were only partially used.

Wikipedia: Postamt Bremen 5 (DE)

521 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Antikolonialdenkmal

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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 district of Schwachhausen, district of Bürgerweide-Barkhof opposite the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium and near the main train station. It was originally erected as a Reich Colonial Monument in 1931, inaugurated in July 1932 and from then on was considered the central German colonial monument by the colonial movement. In 1989 it was rededicated as an anti-colonial monument.

Wikipedia: Antikolonialdenkmal (DE), Website

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Nelson-Mandela-Park

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Nelson Mandela Park is a public park in the Bremen district of Schwachhausen, Germany. The green space has borne this name in honor of Nelson Mandela since 2014.

Wikipedia: Nelson-Mandela-Park (Bremen) (DE)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Verein für Innere Mission in Bremen e.V.

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Verein für Innere Mission in Bremen e.V.

The list of cultural monuments in Schwachhausen lists all cultural monuments in the Bremen district of Schwachhausen.

Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Schwachhausen (DE), Website

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Kaiser-Friedrich-Denkmal

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The Kaiser Friedrich Monument, a bronze equestrian monument created by Louis Tuaillon on Hermann-Böse-Straße in Bremen, was dedicated in 1905 to the memory of the German Emperor Frederick III, who reigned for only 99 days in 1888. It has been a listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Kaiser-Friedrich-Denkmal (Bremen) (DE), Website

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Villa Overbeck

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The Villa Overbeck is located in Bremen, district Schwachhausen, district Barkhof, Parkallee 48 corner Hermann-Böse-Straße, directly at the Stern. The residential building was built in 1903 according to plans by Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich as well as landscape architect Christian Roselius. It has been a Bremen listed building since 1981.

Wikipedia: Villa Overbeck (DE), Website

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Villa Otto

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The Villa Otto or the former Schwenekes Private Teaching Institute is located in Bremen, district of Schwachhausen, district Bürgerpark, Hollerallee 67 corner Parkallee directly at the Stern. The house was built in 1900 and 1915 respectively according to plans by Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich, Bremen. The building has been a Bremen listed building since 1981.

Wikipedia: Villa Otto (DE), Website

321 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Villa Dunkel

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Villa Dunkel is located in Bremen, district of Schwachhausen, district Bürgerpark, Parkallee 101. The residential building was built in 1897 according to plans by Albert Dunkel. It has been a Bremen listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Villa Dunkel (DE), Website

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Villa Hunckel

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Villa Hunckel is located in Bremen, district of Schwachhausen, district Bürgerpark, Parkallee 107. The residential building was built in 1900 according to plans by H. Bischoff. It has been a Bremen listed building since 2001.

Wikipedia: Villa Hunckel (DE), Website

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Villa Ahlers

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The Villa Ahlers, Parkallee 117 at the corner of Benquestraße in Bremen-Schwachhausen, district of Bürgerpark, near the Bürgerpark was built in 1904 according to plans by Eduard Gildemeister and Wilhelm Sunkel. The building was listed as a Bremen cultural monument in 1978.

Wikipedia: Villa Ahlers (DE), Website

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Villa Korff

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The Villa Korff is located in Bremen, district Schwachhausen, district Bürgerpark, Parkallee 133 corner Bulthauptstraße. The residential building was built in 1910 according to plans by Hans Lassen and Heinrich Lassen. It has been a Bremen listed building since 1998.

Wikipedia: Villa Korff von 1910 (DE), Website

1382 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 13: Haus Blumeneck/ Vietor Haus

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Haus Blumeneck/ Vietor Haus

The building at Schwachhauser Heerstraße 64, built as Villa Biermann, in Bremen-Schwachhausen, Schwachhauser Heerstraße, is now part of the Kippenberg-Gymnasium as the Vietor House. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Schwachhauser Heerstraße 64 (DE), Website

1365 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 14: Haus Klatte

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Haus Klatte is located in Bremen, district of Schwachhausen, district of Riensberg, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 170. The residential and summer house was built in 1896. It has been a Bremen listed building since 1986.

Wikipedia: Haus Klatte (DE), Website

368 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Sankt Remberti

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Sankt Remberti

St. Remberti – named after Rimbert, who was Bishop of Bremen from 865 to 888 – is a Protestant parish in the Bremen district of Schwachhausen.

Wikipedia: St. Remberti (Bremen) (DE), Website

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Friedhofskapelle Riensberg

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The Riensberg Cemetery Chapel is located in Bremen, Schwachhausen district, Riensberg district, Friedhofstraße 51. The chapel, the cemetery overseer's house and the mortuary were built in 1875 according to plans by building inspector Johannes Rippe. They have been under Bremen monument protection since 1984.

Wikipedia: Friedhofskapelle Riensberg (DE), Website

501 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Füllhorn

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The sculpture Füllhorn is in front of the main entrance of the Focke Museum in Bremen-Schwachhausen. It is listed in the list of monuments and still images of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Füllhorn (Skulptur) (DE)

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Seenotrettungskreuzer Paul Denker

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Seenotrettungskreuzer Paul Denker Chris Hartmann / CC BY-SA 3.0

The sea rescue cruiser Paul Denker is a museum ship in Bremen, Germany. It was the first ship of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS) made entirely of aluminium and at the same time the smallest of all sea rescue units built in Germany with a daughter boat. In total, the cruiser was in the service of the company for 38 years.

Wikipedia: Paul Denker (Schiff) (DE), Website

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: Focke-Museum

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The Focke Museum is the museum of history and the history of art for the city and state of Bremen. It was formed in 1924 by the merger of a museum of industry and commerce and the previous historical museum, and is named for the founder of the latter, Johann Focke (1848–1922), a Bremen privy councillor and father of Henrich Focke. It is located in 4.5 hectares of grounds in the Riensberg neighbourhood of the city. In addition to a main building which opened in 1964 and was extended in 2002, the museum complex includes buildings dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Wikipedia: Focke Museum (EN), Website

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Haus Riensberg

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Haus Riensberg Till F. Teenck / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Riensberg estate is a historic estate with a park in Bremen-Schwachhausen, at Schwachhauser Heerstraße No. 240, which is now part of the Focke Museum. The Riensberg House has been a listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Gut Riensberg (DE), Website

799 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 21: Villa Borgward

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Villa Borgward Till F. Teenck / CC BY 3.0

The Borgward Villa and the neighbouring Allmers Park to the east in the Bremen district of Horn-Lehe were laid out as a country estate in 1750, and from the beginning of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century they were known as the Focke-Fritze estate. The Allmers Park was acquired by the state of Bremen in 1936. The country house Horner Heerstraße No. 11/11a was inhabited by the Borgward family from 1952 to 2000. It is not to be confused with the house of the former Borgward sales company Pfalzburger Straße 69 in Hastedt.

Wikipedia: Borgward-Haus (DE), Website

510 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Horner Kirche

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Horner Kirche Till F. Teenck / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Horner Church in Bremen-Horn-Lehe, district Horn, Horner Heerstraße No. 30, is the Protestant church of the Holy Cross from 1824. It has been a listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Horner Kirche (DE), Website

407 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 23: Norddeutsche Mission

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The former Horn parsonage in Bremen, Horn-Lehe district, Horn district, Berckstraße 27, was built in 1878 and 1927 according to plans by Johann Heinrich Bolte and Heinrich J. Kayser, respectively.

Wikipedia: Pfarrhaus Horn (DE), Website

997 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 24: Rhododendronpark

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The Rhododendron-Park Bremen, also known as the Rhododendron-Park und Botanischer Garten Bremen, is the biggist collection of rhododendrons and azaleas worldwide, as well as a substantial botanical garden, located in Bremen, Germany. It is open daily; park admission is free but a fee is charged for the nature center Botanika.

Wikipedia: Rhododendron-Park Bremen (EN)

1846 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 25: Villa Leupold

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Villa Leupold is located in Bremen, Horn-Lehe district, Lehesterdeich district, Leher Heerstraße 194. The country house was built in 1872 according to plans by Johann Georg Poppe.

Wikipedia: Villa Leupold (DE), Website

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Uppe-Angst-Gedenkstein

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Uppe-Angst-Gedenkstein

From the end of the 12th to the end of the 17th century, Uppe Angst was the place of justice of Gohs Hollerland in Bremen and today refers to a street named after this historic place in the Bremen district of Oberneuland.

Wikipedia: Uppe Angst (DE)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Gut Landruhe, Hofmeierhaus

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Gut Landruhe, Hofmeierhaus

The list of cultural monuments in Horn-Lehe lists all cultural monuments in the Bremen district of Horn-Lehe.

Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Horn-Lehe (DE), Website

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Gut Landruhe

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Gut Landruhe is a former estate with manor house and park Am Rüten No. 2–4 in Bremen-Horn-Lehe (Lehesterdeich), directly on the border with Oberneuland.

Wikipedia: Gut Landruhe (DE), Website

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