Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Bremen, Germany

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

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

The Villa Rutenberg in Bremen-Östliche Vorstadt, Am Dobben 91, was a residential building and has been the seat of the local office Mitte/Östliche Vorstadt since 1979.

Wikipedia: Villa Rutenberg (DE), Website

The Vasmer Cross is a cross of atonement in the Mitte district of Bremen, district of Ostertor, on the street Beim Steinernen Kreuz No. 10. It was erected in 1435 as a memorial of atonement for the execution of Bremen's mayor Johann Vasmer. The property has been a listed building since 1973 as part of the Beim Steinernen Kreuz ensemble. It is the oldest monument in Bremen after Roland.

Wikipedia: Vasmer-Kreuz (DE), Website

The sculpture Agamemnon stands in Bremen-Mitte in the courtyard of BLG's headquarters on Präsident-Kennedy-Platz. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Agamemnon (Skulptur, Bremen) (DE)

The Romari sculpture is located in Bremen – Mitte at Präsident-Kennedy-Platz/Contrescarpe in front of BLG's headquarters. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Romari (DE)

The sculpture Occasion Dramatique is located in Bremen-Mitte, on Präsident-Kennedy-Platz in front of BLG's headquarters. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Occasion Dramatique (DE)

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

Caterpillar is a light sculpture in Bremen. It is located in Bremen-Mitte at Präsident-Kennedy-Platz at the Bremen State Archives and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Raupe (Skulptur) (DE)

The Metropol Theater Bremen is a venue in Bremen, Germany. There are events of various kinds, from musicals to RTL's super talent or concerts by well-known artists.

Wikipedia: Metropol Theater Bremen (DE), Website

Original parts of the Bishop's Gate in Bremen, which was given its present shape in 1838 according to a design by building director Friedrich Moritz Stamm, are included in the reconstruction of the old square in the ramparts as well as essential parts at the entrance to the Egestorff Foundation in Bremen-Osterholz. At the same time, the associated gatehouse, which has served as a shop since 1848, was built on the bridge over the moat.

Wikipedia: Bischofstor (Bremen) (DE), Website

The Horse Driver is a bronze sculpture group by Louis Tuaillon, which was erected in 1902 in the ramparts (Bremen-Mitte). It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Der Rosselenker (Bremen) (DE), Website

The second Bremen City Theatre was a theatre in Bremen, which was built in 1843, became the property of the city in 1855 and was destroyed in 1944 after just over 100 years of existence.

Wikipedia: Bremer Stadttheater (1843) (DE)

The larger-than-life bronze figure of the Large 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 displayed free sculptures.

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

The Dying Youth is a bronze statue created in 1936 by Herbert Kubica, which was originally erected in the centre of Bremen's old town during the Nazi era as a heroic monument to the members of the Freikorps Caspari and the Gerstenberg Division who died in the fight against the Bremen Soviet Republic.

Wikipedia: Sterbender Jüngling (Kubica) (DE), Website

The monument to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, the important Bremen physician and astronomer, was created by the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser in Rome in 1848. It was erected in 1850 in the Bremen ramparts. The property has been a listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Olbers-Denkmal in Bremen (DE), Website

The sculpture Man and Woman in Bremen-Mitte in the Bremer Wallanlagen near the Herdentor is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Mann und Frau (Skulptur) (DE)

The monument Das Ende in the Bremer Wallanlagen in Bremen-Mitte was erected there in 1978 and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Das Ende (Denkmal) (DE)

The Bismarck monument outside the cathedral in Bremen is a bronze figure of the former Chancellor, riding a horse. It was created in 1910, twelve years after Bismarck's death. The commission was entrusted to Adolf von Hildebrand in 1904. Since 1973 the monument has enjoyed protected status.

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The Neptune Fountain on the Domshof in Bremen is a work of art by the sculptor Waldemar Otto, which was erected in 1991. It is one of the few modern Neptune fountains.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Bremen) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Bremen Ratskeller (EN), Website

The Bremer Marktplatz is a square situated in the centre of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. One of the oldest public squares in the city, it covers an area of 3,484 m2 (37,500 sq ft). It is no longer used as a market place except for the Christmas market and the annual Freimarkt Fair at the end of October.

Wikipedia: Bremer Marktplatz (EN)

The Bremen Roland is a statue of Roland, erected in 1404. It stands in the market square (Rathausplatz) of Bremen, Germany, facing the cathedral, and shows Roland, paladin of the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and hero of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

Wikipedia: Bremen Roland (EN), Heritage Website

The Stadtwaage at No. 13 Langenstraße in Bremen (Germany) is the building in which the municipal weighing scales used to be housed. The facility was created in order to levy taxes and excise duties while protecting merchants and customers against fraud and dishonesty.

Wikipedia: Stadtwaage (Bremen) (EN), Website

Spitzen Gebel is a historic building in the centre of Bremen, Germany, located at No. 1, Hinter dem Schütting. Its origins date to the year 1400, but it was rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1590 with additions in 1610. Since 1973, it has been a listed building.

Wikipedia: Spitzen Gebel (EN), Website

The Light Bringer is the title of a large, gilded bronze relief by Bernhard Hoetger from 1936 above the entrance to Böttcherstraße in Bremen.

Wikipedia: Der Lichtbringer (DE), Website

The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was one of the most important early Expressionists, and the museum features key works from each of her creative periods.

Wikipedia: Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (EN), Website

Böttcherstraße is a street in the historic centre of Bremen, Germany. Only about 100 m (330 ft) long, it is famous for its unusual architecture and ranks among the city's main cultural landmarks and visitor attractions. Most of its buildings were erected between 1922 and 1931, primarily as a result of the initiative of Ludwig Roselius, a Bremen-based coffee-trader, who charged Bernhard Hoetger with the artistic supervision over the project. The street and its buildings are a rare example of an architectural ensemble belonging to a variant of the expressionist style. Several of the houses can be classed as Brick Expressionism. Since 1973, the ensemble has been protected by the Monument Protection Act.

Wikipedia: Böttcherstraße (EN)

The Ludwig Roselius Museum on Böttcherstraße in the old town of Bremen, Germany, houses the private collection of the successful coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943). Artefacts from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period are on display. The house itself which was completed in 1588 has a history going back to the 14th century.

Wikipedia: Ludwig Roselius Museum (EN), Website, Opening Hours

Robinson Crusoe House is a stepped-gabled house on Böttcherstraße in the old town district of Bremen, Germany. It was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius who admired the pioneering spirit of Daniel Defoe's fictional hero Robinson Crusoe.

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The St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in the old town of Bremen. It is located near the Weser river and is one of the oldest churches in the city.

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Alexander von Humboldt is a German sailing ship originally built in 1906 by the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as the lightship Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986. Subsequently, she was converted into a three masted barque by the German shipyard Motorwerke Bremerhaven and was re-launched in 1988 as Alexander von Humboldt. In 2011 the ship was taken off sail-training and sent to the Caribbean for the charter business, then she was converted to a botel.

Wikipedia: Alexander von Humboldt (ship) (EN), Website

The Wind Object in Bremen is a sculpture that stands in the Mitte district on the Weser near the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke/Tiefer near the Schnoor old town district. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Windobjekt in Bremen (DE)

The St.-Jakobus-Packhaus is a well-known architectural monument in Bremen in the small old town district of Schnoor on the streets Wüstestätte 10 and Stavendamm 8.

Wikipedia: St.-Jakobus-Packhaus (DE), Website

The bathhouse fountain with the sculpture Beim Bade, also known as The Merry Bathers, is located in Bremen-Mitte in the Schnoor, on the Stavendamm near the Schifferhaus. It is listed in the list of fountains of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Badestubenbrunnen (DE)

The Shipper's House in Bremen, Germany is a building in the oldest district of the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen. The house was registered as an historical monument in 1973 and is in Schnoor. During the last 25 years of the 20th century the house was a private museum. It was an attraction for many visitors including the former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

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The memorial to the victims of the November pogroms of 1938, in which five Jewish citizens were murdered by the National Socialists in Bremen, has stood since 1982 near the Landherrnamt building in Bremen-Mitte on the corner of Dechanatstraße and Am Landherrnamt. The memorial was designed by Hans D. Voss and consists of black-painted, panel-like concrete cubes.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal für die Opfer der Novemberpogrome 1938 (Bremen) (DE)

The Domsheide traffic tower in Bremen-Mitte, district of Altstadt, Domsheide at the corner of Balgebrückstraße, dates from 1988.

Wikipedia: Verkehrsturm Domsheide (DE), Website

The Turmbläserbrunnen is a fountain column in Bremen in front of the south side of the towers of the cathedral. It was erected with its bronze sculpture group by Max Dennert in 1899.

Wikipedia: Turmbläserbrunnen (Bremen) (DE), Website

Bremen Cathedral, named after 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

Bleikeller is the colloquial name of the east crypt of St. Peter's Cathedral in Bremen. It is best known for the fact that eight mummies from the 17th and 18th centuries were found here.

Wikipedia: Bleikeller (DE), Opening Hours

The sculpture garden of the Bürgerschaft is located in Bremen in the Mitte district on Bremen's market square to the right of the Haus der Bürgerschaft. It can be visited during the opening hours of the Bremen Parliament.

Wikipedia: Skulpturengarten der Bürgerschaft (DE)

St. John's Church is a Roman Catholic provost church in Bremen. It was built in the fourteenth century as a Franciscan abbey church and has been a listed monument since 1973.

Wikipedia: St. John's Church, Bremen (EN), Url

The Olbers-Gesellschaft e.V. Bremen was founded in Bremen in 1920 by Max Völkel, Wilhelm Finke (1884–1950) and Friedrich Nölke (1877–1947) in honour of the city's great astronomer, Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840).

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