Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Bremerhaven, Germany

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

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

Schulschiff Deutschland is a German full-rigged sail training ship, maintained as a historical monument and museum ship. She was employed as a school ship for the merchant marine beginning in 1927. The ship is moored at the Neuer Hafen in Bremerhaven, in the Federal State of Bremen, Germany. Since the name Deutschland was at the time of its construction already assigned to an unbuilt naval warship, its official name is Schulschiff Deutschland.

Wikipedia: Schulschiff Deutschland (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: German Emigration Center (EN), Website

The Wal is a steamship that was used as an icebreaker on the Kiel Canal from 1938 to 1990. Since June 1990, the ship has been used as a museum ship by the Schiffahrts-Compagnie Bremerhaven e.V.

Wikipedia: Wal (Schiff, 1938) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Welle (Schiff, 1915) (DE), Website

The Grönland is the oldest seagoing vessel still sailing in Germany and a former research vessel.

Wikipedia: Grönland (Schiff) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Klimahaus Bremerhaven (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Auswandererdenkmal (EN)

The Unterfeuer Bremerhaven is one of two lighthouses of the Bremerhaven guideline. Together with the Bremerhaven Oberfeuer, the Simon-Loschen-Luchturm, the underfeuer shows the way down the Weser ships.

Wikipedia: Unterfeuer Bremerhaven (DE)

The Bremerhaven Zoo is located next to the river Weser and exhibits mainly species which live in the water or in northern environments; exceptions are, for instance, chimpanzees and White-headed marmosets.

Wikipedia: Bremerhaven Zoo (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Bremerhaven Lighthouse (EN)