Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Bremen, Germany
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Experience Bremen in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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 BremenSight 1: Windobjekt
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.
Sight 2: Schifferhaus
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.
Sight 3: Beim Bade
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.
Sight 4: St. Johann
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.
Sight 5: Verkehrsturm
The Domsheide traffic tower in Bremen-Mitte, district of Altstadt, Domsheide at the corner of Balgebrückstraße, dates from 1988.
Sight 6: Turmbläser
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.
Sight 7: St. Petri-Dom
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.
Sight 8: Bleikeller
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.
Sight 9: Skulpturengarten
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.
Sight 10: Reiterstandbild Otto von Bismarck
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.
Sight 11: Neptunbrunnen
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.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: Bremer Loch
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.
Sight 14: Spitzen Gebel
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.
Sight 15: Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus
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.
Sight 16: Ludwig Roselius Museum
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
Sight 17: Robinson-Crusoe-Haus
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.
Sight 18: Martinikirche
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.
Sight 19: Alexander von Humboldt
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.
Sight 20: Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst
The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Opened in 1991, it is located on the Teerhof peninsula next to the River Weser in an old factory building which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War. Originally known as "New Museum Weserburg Bremen", it was Europe's first "collectors' museum", in that it conserves no permanent collection but mounts changing exhibition of private collections. It is one of the largest modern art museum spaces in Germany.
Sight 21: Three Triangles
The sculpture Three Triangles, also known as Outdoor Piece for Bremen, is located in Bremen's Neustadt at the north end of the Teerhof. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 22: Argo-Haus
The Argo Reederei was an important German shipping company based in Bremen. The focus of the activities was the scheduled service within Europe, in particular the trip to Finland, Great Britain and the Levant.
Sight 23: Stadtwaage
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.
Sight 24: Helmuth von Moltke
The Moltke monument in Bremen is located on the wall of the north tower of the Church of Our Lady. In the form of an equestrian statue, it commemorates the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke. The monument was built according to a model by the Munich sculptor Hermann Hahn with the assistance of the Berlin architect Heinrich Jennen and has been a listed building since 1973.
Sight 25: Marcus-Brunnen
The Marcus Fountain in Bremen-Mitte is located in the Liebfrauenkirchhof. It was inaugurated in 1909 and has been a listed building since 1973.
Wikipedia: Marcus-Brunnen (Liebfrauenkirchhof) (DE), Website
Sight 26: Mall of Fame
Mall of Fame is the unofficial name of a pedestrian zone in Bremen, Germany. It runs under the glass roof of the 250-metre-long Lloyd Passage in the centre of the Hanseatic city.
Sight 27: Ansgar-Säule
The Ansgar Column is a bronze monument in Bremen-Mitte, on the Ansgari churchyard on Obernstraße. It was erected in 1965 and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 28: Rehbrunnen / Hildebrandbrunnen
The Rehbrunnen, also known as the Hildebrandbrunnen, is located in the Mitte district of Bremen in the Bremer Wallanlagen near the Herdentorswallmühle. The fountain is a listed building.
Sight 29: Schweinehirt und seine Herde
The Swineherd and His Herd is a bronze group of figures in Bremen-Mitte at the end of Sögestraße near the streets Am Wall and Herdentorsteinweg. It was erected in 1974 and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 30: Katharinenkloster
St Catherine's Monastery in Bremen, Germany, was founded in 1253 by the Dominicans. Today traces of its existence remain in the area of the Katharinenstraße and Katharinenklosterhof in the old town.
Sight 31: Mann und Frau
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.
Sight 32: Torhäuschen
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.
Sight 33: Romari
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.
Sight 34: Agamemnon
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.
Sight 35: Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat
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
Sight 36: Raupe
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.
Sight 37: Occasion Dramatique
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.
Sight 38: Metropol Theater Bremen
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.
Sight 39: 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.
Sight 40: Aufgehender Mond
The Rising Moon is a sculpture in Bremen-Mitte in front of the entrance façade of the former post office 5, An der Weide 50, near Bremen Central Station. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 41: Postamt 5
The Bremen 5 post office, also known as the main post office 5, was the central building of the Hanover Postal Directorate near the main railway station in Bremen and for many years one of the largest buildings in the Hanseatic city. From 1996 onwards, large parts of the house stood empty for a long time and were only partially used.
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