Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Bremerhaven, Germany
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4.9 km
52 m
Explore Bremerhaven 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.
Individual Sights in BremerhavenSight 1: Sankt Marien
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city center of Bremerhaven, Germany. It belongs to the parish of the Holy Heart of Jesus Bremerhaven-Lehe in the Bremerhaven deanery of the Diocese of Hildesheim and is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Wikipedia: Maria Unbefleckte Empfängnis (Bremerhaven-Mitte) (DE), Website
Sight 2: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche
The Mayor-Smidt Memorial Church in Bremerhaven belongs to an existing community of the united churches from Lutherans and Reformed. Belonging to the Bremen Evangelical Church right from the start, it is still the only parish of this state church in Bremerhaven. The correct name of the "Great Church" is the United Protestant Community to the Mayor-Smidt-Memorial Church. Bremerhaven's main church has been named after Mayor Johann Smidt since 1927.
Wikipedia: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche (DE), Website
Sight 3: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Denkmal
The Mayor Smidt Monument in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, was erected in 1888.
Sight 4: Historisches Museum Bremerhaven
The Bremerhaven Historical Museum – formerly the Morgenstern Museum – is located between the Old Geeste Bridge and the Kennedy Bridge on the south bank of the Geeste and shows the history of Bremerhaven and its surroundings.
Sight 5: Busse-Denkmal
The Busse Monument is a memorial in Bremerhaven, district of Geestemünde on the left bank of the Geeste at the foot of the eastern bridgehead of the Old Geeste Bridge. It was built in 1936 according to a design by the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger. It commemorates the commissioning of the fishing steamer Sagitta by the shipowner Friedrich Busse in 1885, which marks the beginning of modern deep-sea fishing in Germany.
Sight 6: Alte Geestebrücke
The Alte Geestebrücke is a swing bridge in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde on the Fährstraße. It has been running across the Geeste since 1904.
Sight 7: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst
The Cabinet for Current Arts is a space for contemporary art in Bremerhaven, where changing exhibitions of the international avant-garde will be shown.
Sight 8: Kunstmuseum
The Bremerhaven Art Museum combined with the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven of the Bremerhaven Art Association in the Seestadt Bremerhaven is an art museum in the Bremerhaven-Mitte district at Karlsburg 1 at Theodor-Heuss-Platz.
Sight 9: Zollhaus
The Bremerhaven Zollhaus in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Van-Ronzelen-Straße/Ludwig-Plate-Platz was built in 1897 at the Bremerhaven head tower.
Sight 10: Atelier Wilke
The list of cultural monuments in Bremerhaven lists all cultural monuments of the city of Bremerhaven and its districts.
Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Bremerhaven (DE), Website
Sight 11: Hans Lüken
The Hans Lüken was a 19 m class sea rescue cruiser of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS), which was built in 1969 by the Schweers shipyard in Bardenfleth under yard no. 6409. The internal designation of the DGzRS was KRS 04.
Sight 12: DIVA
The sailing yacht Diva is an exhibit of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1/3. It was built in 1985.
Sight 13: Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum
The German Maritime Museum is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community. The main museum building was opened on 5 September 1975 by then-president of Germany Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971. In 2000, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the museum, the Hansekogge, a ship constructed around 1380 that was found in the Weser river in 1962, was presented to the public after having undergone a lengthy process of conservation in a large preservative-filled basin.
Sight 14: Elbe 3
The Bürgermeister Abendroth is a German lightship commissioned in 1909 under the name Eider.
Sight 15: Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost
The Klimahaus Bremerhaven is a scientific exhibition house in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is located at the Old Harbour and is part of the Havenwelten; its shape resembles a boat. The exhibition offers the possibility of a virtual journey around the Earth in a north-south direction at about the longitude of the starting point, 8°34′30" east of Greenwich, and in the extension over the South Pole in a northerly direction along longitude 171 to 172 degrees west. The approximately 18,800 m² world of knowledge and experience takes up the topic of climate and climate change in three exhibition areas. The operator is the Klimahaus operating company. Since 2004, Arne Dunker has been the director. Around 600,000 people visited the exhibition annually until 2014 and around 425,000 in 2018.
Sight 16: Grönland
The Grönland is the oldest seagoing vessel still sailing in Germany and a former research vessel.
Sight 17: Welle
The wave is a steam ship built in 1915 at Atlas-Werke Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen for the construction office for the Unterweserkorrektion. This straightening was one of the largest hydro-construction projects in the Ems Empire in addition to the Oder Ems Canal.
Sight 18: Deutsches Auswandererhaus
The German Emigration Center is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.
Sight 19: Auswandererdenkmal
The Auswandererdenkmal is a statue in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, that depicts an emigrant family. Cast in bronze, it shows an emigrant family with the father looking forward toward the New World and the mother looking back as she leaves the old country. The statue stands by one of the city's main dikes, the Weserdeich, on the site of one of the original docks from which early emigrants departed.
Sight 20: Leuchtturm Bremerhaven
The Bremerhaven Lighthouse, also known as the Simon Loschen Tower or Loschen Lighthouse, is the rear light of a pair of leading lights at the New Harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. It is the oldest operative lighthouse on the mainland along Germany's North Sea shore and is counted among the city's landmarks.
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