Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Stadtgebiet Bremen, Germany
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4.7 km
82 m
Explore Stadtgebiet Bremen 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 Stadtgebiet BremenSight 1: Antikolonialdenkmal
The Anti-Colonial Monument is a memorial in Bremen in the shape of a brick elephant. It is located in Nelson Mandela Park in the Schwachhausen district, Bürgerweide-Barkhof opposite the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium and close to the main train station. It was originally erected in 1931 as a Reich Colonial Monument of Honour, inaugurated in July 1932 and from then on was considered a central German colonial monument by the colonial movement. In 1989 it was rededicated as an anti-colonial monument.
Sight 2: Fischrestaurant Knurrhahn & Restauration und Bierhalle H. Beckröge
The fish restaurant Knurrhahn is located in Bremen, Mitte district, Katharinenstraße 15/corner of Schüsselkorb. It was built in the Renaissance and is one of the oldest buildings in Bremen.
Sight 3: 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 4: Essighaus
The Essighaus was an impressive gabled town house in the old town of Bremen in northern Germany. One of the city's finest examples of Renaissance architecture, it was almost completely destroyed by bombing in 1943. The entrance flanked by projecting bay windows is the only part of the building which has been restored.
Sight 5: Argo-Haus
The Argo shipping company was a major German shipping company based in Bremen, Germany. The focus of the activities was on scheduled services within Europe, in particular to Finland, Great Britain and the Levant.
Sight 6: 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 included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 7: Steinkammern
The house Schlachte 36 in Bremen-Mitte, also known as Langenstraße 72, is one of Bremen's most important buildings.
Sight 8: Fangturm
In the 10th century, only the cathedral district was walled in as a cathedral castle. From 1229 onwards, a circular wall was built around the entire old town, semicircular on the land side. In the 13th century, Bremen expanded westwards. From 1307 onwards, the new Stephanivorstadt was given a wall on the land side only. In the 15th century, the first brick phase of Bremen's architectural history, the city wall on the Weser side in the port areas of Schlachte and Tiefer was successively replaced by the gable sides of brick warehouses, so that only the slaughter gates remained of the original wall at the Schlachte. The Stephaniviertel, on the other hand, did not receive a wall on the Weser side until the middle of the 16th century. After that, in 1551, the wall between the old parts of the city and the Stephaniviertel could fall.
Sight 9: Der Rufer
The Caller is a bronze sculpture by Gerhard Marcks. It is located at the Schlachte in Bremen in front of the Weserhaus of Radio Bremen.
Sight 10: Loriot-Sofa
The Loriot Sofa as a bronze monument is a sculpture in Bremen-Mitte in front of the entrance to the Radio Bremen broadcasting centre on the Diepenau. It was erected in 2013 and commemorates Vicco von Bülow, whose TV series Loriot was created on Radio Bremen.
Sight 11: Architektenkammer der freien Hansestadt Bremen / Ingenieurkammer der freien Hansestadt Bremen
The architect's house in Bremen-Mitte in the old town, Geeren 41–43, is the seat of the Bremen Chamber of Architects.
Sight 12: Agnes-Heineken-Denkmal
The Agnes-Heineken monument is a natural stone monument in Bremen-Mitte, at the Bremen vocational training center, which was set up in 1957 in honor of the Bremen teacher Agnes Heineken (1872–1954).
Sight 13: Bräutigam
Since the late Middle Ages, the Bremen Powder Towers have been the name given to three large round towers in Bremen, in which the powder stocks, weapons and ammunition needed in the event of war were stored. In addition, prisoners were also held on the ground floors of the powder towers.
Sight 14: Focke-Garten
The Focke Garden (Fockegarten)-also called a museum garden-is a park on the western edge of the old town of Bremen. It is a listed part of the Bremen wall systems as a named part of the Bremen.
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