Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Bremerhaven, Germany

The Bürgermeister Abendroth is a German lightship commissioned in 1909 under the name Eider.

Wikipedia: Bürgermeister Abendroth (DE), Website

The Seefalke is a former salvage tug built in 1924 at the Tecklenborg shipyard for the shipping company W. Schuchmann. It is an exhibit of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. The tug has been a listed building since 2005 as part of the cultural monument "German Maritime Museum and Museum Fleet".

Wikipedia: Seefalke (Schiff, 1924) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: German Maritime Museum (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Diva (Schiff) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Hans Lüken (DE)

The Bremerhaven water level indicator is located at the southern end of the Weser dike in Mitte (Bremerhaven). He informed ship guides about the tide level of the Weser estuary. Like the Bürgermeister-Smidt Memorial Church and the "Lange Heinrich" in the past, the water level indicator is (again) the landmark of Bremerhaven.

Wikipedia: Wasserstandsanzeiger Bremerhaven (DE), Website

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

The Bremerhaven tonne yard maintains and deploys the navigation signs in the Outer Weser. Located at the mouth of the Geeste in Bremerhaven, the tonne yard belonged to the Tonne and Beacon Office in Bremen, founded in 1876, and after the Second World War to the Bremerhaven Water and Shipping Office (WSA). Since 8 April 2019, it has been part of the newly created Weser-Jade-North Sea Waterways and Shipping Authority.

Wikipedia: Tonnenhof Bremerhaven (DE), Website

The Bremerhaven Radar Tower is a 106-metre reinforced concrete tower located in Bremerhaven, Germany. The radar tower, which was constructed between 1962 and 1965, accommodates numerous transmitting plants for maritime radio purposes, in addition to its radar equipment. A viewing platform is situated at the 60 metre level, and is accessible to the public.

Wikipedia: Bremerhaven Radar Tower (EN), Website

The Bremerhaven Zollhaus in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Van-Ronzelen-Straße/Ludwig-Plate-Platz was built in 1897 at the Bremerhaven head tower.

Wikipedia: Zollhaus Bremerhaven (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven (DE)

The Mayor Smidt Monument in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, was erected in 1888.

Wikipedia: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Denkmal (DE), Website

The Cabinet for Current Arts is a space for contemporary art in Bremerhaven, where changing exhibitions of the international avant-garde will be shown.

Wikipedia: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst (DE)

The Villa Seebeck in Bremerhaven-Mitte, Deichstraße 15, corner of Fischplatz, was created in 1908 according to plans by Johann Allers.

Wikipedia: Villa Seebeck (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Busse-Denkmal (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Historisches Museum Bremerhaven (DE), Website

The Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde is a secondary school centre. It has a grammar school branch and a secondary school branch, where students can obtain either the intermediate school leaving certificate or the vocational training entrance qualification. Since the 2011/12 school year, the Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule has been a secondary school. The school was named after Wilhelm Raabe, one of the most important representatives of literary realism in post-war Germany.

Wikipedia: Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule (Bremerhaven) (DE), Website

Haus Schuchmann in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde, Bartelstraße 1/Kaistraße, was built in 1922 according to plans by Heinrich Jäger.

Wikipedia: Haus Schuchmann (DE), Website

The swing bridge over the Geestemünde Main Canal in the northern extension of Klußmannstraße in Geestemünde dates back to 1861.

Wikipedia: Drehbrücke über den Geestemünder Hauptkanal (DE), Website

The Geeste estuary lighthouses are located on both sides of the mouth of the Geeste, the northern one in Bremerhaven-Mitte, the southern one in Geestemünde. The towers secure the entrance to the Geeste and the fishing port. In the lighthouse directory of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, the two pier lights bear the names Geeste, N and Geeste, S.

Wikipedia: Leuchtfeuer Geestemündung (DE)