Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Bremen, Germany

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Number of sights 26 sights
Distance 6.1 km
Ascend 89 m
Descend 85 m

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 Bremen

Sight 1: Zionskirche

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The Protestant Zion Church and the community center in Bremen in the Neustadt district, Kornstraße 31, were built by 1957.

Wikipedia: Zionskirche (Bremen) (DE), Url, Website

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Zentaurenbrunnen

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Zentaurenbrunnen

The centaur fountain from 1891 is a fountain in Bremen. Its centrepiece is the bronze sculpture of a horseman fighting with a snake by the sculptor August Sommer. The fountain is now located in Leibnizplatzpark in Bremen's Neustadt district, which borders Leibnizplatz as part of the Neustadtswallanlagen.

Wikipedia: Zentaurenbrunnen (Bremen) (DE), Website

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: 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

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Gymnasium Leibnizplatz & Realschule

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The Oberschule am Leibnizplatz is a secondary school in Bremen, Germany. It was a Realschule, Oberrealschule, Oberschule, Gymnasium and school centre of the secondary level II and integrated district school and is now again a secondary school in Bremen with an upper school as an all-day school. Since 1984, the building has been a listed building in Bremen. The bremer shakespeare company has been playing in the school since 1988.

Wikipedia: Schule am Leibnizplatz (DE), Url

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Sitzendes Paar

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Sitzendes Paar

The sculpture Seated Couple stands in Bremen's Neustadt in the green area on Schulstraße at the corner of Neustadtscontrescarpe, near Leibnizplatz, which is part of the Neustadtswallanlagen. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Sitzendes Paar (DE)

89 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Gymn. Oberstufe am Leibnizplatz

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Gymn. Oberstufe am Leibnizplatz

Barracks IV of the "Bremen" Infantry Regiment in Bremen, Neustadt district, Neustadtscontrescarpe 49/51 and Schulstraße 11 was built around 1890. In 2010, Barracks IV was placed under monument protection.

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

391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Sankt Pauli

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Sankt Pauli

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

Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Bremen-Neustadt (DE), Website

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Kleiner Roland

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Kleiner Roland

The Little Roland Monument, also known as the Roland Fountain, stands in Bremen's Neustadt district, at the southern end of the Neuer Markt. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

Wikipedia: Kleiner Roland (DE), Website

793 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 9: H.J. Kratschke

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

The H.-J. Kratschke is a former rescue cruiser of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS) of the 19 m class, which was built in 1969 by the shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder under shipyard no. 6313. The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 03.

Wikipedia: H.-J. Kratschke (DE)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: H-Trakt

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The teaching building of the Bremen Maritime School now serves Faculty 5 and Faculty 1 (Economics) of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Neustadt (Bremen).

Wikipedia: Lehrgebäude Seefahrtschule Bremen (DE), Website

0 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Olbers-Planetarium

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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).

Wikipedia: Olbers-Gesellschaft (DE), Opening_hours , Website

856 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 12: St. Jakobus-Packhaus

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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

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Bremer Geschichtenhaus

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The Bremen Story House in Schnoor is a "living" museum. As part of qualification and employment measures, unemployed people present historical events and personalities of Bremen life in historical settings from the middle of the 17th to the 20th century. In self-made costumes true to the original, they accompany and guide visitors through the exhibition and tell Bremen history and stories.

Wikipedia: Bremer Geschichtenhaus (DE), Website

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Ottjen-Alldag-Brunnen

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This list of fountains in the city of Bremen lists the fountains and gargoyles in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Some of them have been removed from their original location, relocated, redesigned or destroyed over the decades. This is noted under the status attachment. Monuments and statues are expressly not listed.

Wikipedia: Liste der Brunnen der Stadt Bremen (DE), Website

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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The Heinrich Heine Monument in Bremen-Mitte stands on Altenwall next to the Kunsthalle Bremen. It was erected in 2010 and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.

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

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Kunsthalle Bremen

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The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile". The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011. Since 1977, the building has been designated a Kulturdenkmal on Germany's buildings heritage list.

Wikipedia: Kunsthalle Bremen (EN), Website

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Kriegerehrenmal Altmannshöhe

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The memorial for the Bremen soldiers who died in 1914–1918, the fallen of the Gerstenberg Division and the Freikorps Caspari stands 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

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Kriegsgefangenendenkmal

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

Wikipedia: Kriegsgefangenendenkmal (Bremen) (DE), Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: 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

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Villa Ichon

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The Villa Ichon in Bremen (Mitte) in the Ostertorviertel at Goetheplatz 3 and on the Bremen Wallanlagen, dates from 1849 and is known nationwide as a forum for cultural and peace work. On the other side of the building is now the Theater am Goetheplatz.

Wikipedia: Villa Ichon (DE), Website, Url

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Theater am Goetheplatz

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The Theater am Goetheplatz, also incorrectly known as the Goethetheater, is the main theatre of the city of Bremen in the north of Germany, the main venue of Theater Bremen. Completed in 1913 in the Neoclassical style, it is located in the cultural district to the east of the old town. After reconstruction with major extensions after the Second World War, it was fully modernized in 2004. Since 2005, it has been a listed building.

Wikipedia: Theater am Goetheplatz (EN), Website

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Köpkenstift

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Köpkenstift Till F. Teenck / CC BY 3.0

The Gottesbuden Foundation, also known as the Senator Heinrich Köpken Foundation, founded in 1564, is the second oldest of the 342 foundations in the state of Bremen. It is based at Friesenstraße 48.

Wikipedia: Stiftung Gottesbuden (DE), Website

346 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Zakk

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Zakk

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

Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Bremen-Mitte (DE), Website

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Körner-Denkmal

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The bronze monument on the Theodor-Körner-Wall in Bremen for the poet and fighter in the Wars of Liberation was donated by citizens of the Hanseatic city and erected in 1865. It has been a listed building since 1973.

Wikipedia: Körner-Denkmal (Bremen) (DE), Website

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: Wiener Hof

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Wiener Hof

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

Wikipedia: Ensemble Wiener Hof (DE), Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 26: 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 art house cinema in Germany on Ostertorsteinweg in Bremen, district of Ostertor, the so-called Viertel.

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

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