Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bremen, Germany
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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 BremenSight 1: Gefallenen-Ehrenmal der Technischen Lehranstalten
This list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen lists the monuments, statues, statues, memorials and sculptures of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Some of them have been removed from their original location over the decades, relocated, redesigned or even destroyed. This is noted under the status attachment.
Wikipedia: Liste der Denkmale und Standbilder der Stadt Bremen (DE)
Sight 2: Theater am Leibnizplatz
The Bremer Shakespeare Company e.V. is a theatre collective in the legal form of a non-profit association with its headquarters in Bremen.
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: H-Trakt
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).
Sight 5: St. Johann
St. John's Church is a Roman Catholic provost church in Bremen. It was built in the fourteenth century as a Franciscan abbey church and has been a listed monument since 1973.
Sight 6: Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich
The Gasthof zum Kaiser Friedrich in Bremen in the Schnoor district, corner of the streets Lange Wieren and Am Landherrnamt is a restaurant named in memory of Emperor Frederick III, the 99-day emperor.
Sight 7: Beim Bade
The bathhouse fountain with the sculpture Beim Bade, also known as The Merry Bathers, is located in Bremen-Mitte in the Schnoor, on the Stavendamm near the Schifferhaus. It is listed in the list of fountains of the city of Bremen.
Sight 8: Schifferhaus
The Shipper's House in Bremen, Germany is a building in the oldest district of the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen. The house was registered as an historical monument in 1973 and is in Schnoor. During the last 25 years of the 20th century the house was a private museum. It was an attraction for many visitors including the former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
Sight 9: Mahnmal für die Opfer der Novemberpogrome 1938
The memorial to the victims of the November pogroms of 1938, in which five Jewish citizens were murdered by the National Socialists in Bremen, has stood since 1982 near the Landherrnamt building in Bremen-Mitte on the corner of Dechanatstraße and Am Landherrnamt. The memorial was designed by Hans D. Voss and consists of black-painted, panel-like concrete cubes.
Wikipedia: Mahnmal für die Opfer der Novemberpogrome 1938 (Bremen) (DE)
Sight 10: Verkehrsturm
The Domsheide traffic tower in Bremen-Mitte, district of Altstadt, Domsheide at the corner of Balgebrückstraße, dates from 1988.
Sight 11: Turmbläser
The Turmbläserbrunnen is a fountain column in Bremen in front of the south side of the towers of the cathedral. It was erected with its bronze sculpture group by Max Dennert in 1899.
Sight 12: Dom-Museum
The Cathedral Museum in Bremen's St. Peter's Cathedral is an ecumenical museum for Bremen church history, which was founded in 1987 to record finds from the medieval bishops' tombs of the cathedral. It is under the sponsorship of the Bremer Dom e. V. Foundation.
Sight 13: St. Petri-Dom
Bremen Cathedral, named after St. Peter, is a church situated in the market square in the center of Bremen. The cathedral belongs to the Bremian Evangelical Church, a member of the umbrella organization Protestant Church in Germany. It is the previous cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Since 1973, it is protected by the monument protection act.
Sight 14: Bleikeller
Bleikeller is the colloquial name of the east crypt of St. Peter's Cathedral in Bremen. It is best known for the fact that eight mummies from the 17th and 18th centuries were found here.
Sight 15: Skulpturengarten
The sculpture garden of the Bürgerschaft is located in Bremen in the Mitte district on Bremen's market square to the right of the Haus der Bürgerschaft. It can be visited during the opening hours of the Bremen Parliament.
Sight 16: Der Tröpfler
The fountain with the sculpture Der Tröpfler "Il gocciolatoio" is located in Bremen - Mitte on Marktstraße in front of the entrance to the Börsenhof. It is listed in the list of fountains of the city of Bremen.
Sight 17: Spitzen Gebel
Spitzen Gebel is a historic building in the centre of Bremen, Germany, located at No. 1, Hinter dem Schütting. Its origins date to the year 1400, but it was rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1590 with additions in 1610. Since 1973, it has been a listed building.
Sight 18: Der Lichtbringer
The Light Bringer is the title of a large, gilded bronze relief by Bernhard Hoetger from 1936 above the entrance to Böttcherstraße in Bremen.
Sight 19: Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus
The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was one of the most important early Expressionists, and the museum features key works from each of her creative periods.
Sight 20: Roseliushaus
The Ludwig Roselius Museum on Böttcherstraße in the old town of Bremen, Germany, houses the private collection of the successful coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943). Artefacts from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period are on display. The house itself which was completed in 1588 has a history going back to the 14th century.
Sight 21: Haus St. Petrus
St Petrus House is a historic building in Bremen, Germany. With features of North-German Gothic architecture including an arcade, it was built in 1927 by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius as part of his development of Böttcherstraße. Today its newly refurbished dining rooms are part of the Atlantic Grand Hotel. Since 1973, St Petrus House has been a listed building.
Sight 22: The Atlantis House
The Atlantis House on Böttcherstraße in the old town of Bremen in the north of Germany is an interesting example of German architecture in the interwar period. Designed by Bernhard Hoetger, it was completed in 1931. After suffering serious war damage, it was rebuilt in 1965 with a new facade designed by Ewald Mataré.
Sight 23: Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt is a German sailing ship originally built in 1906 by the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as the lightship Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986. Subsequently, she was converted into a three masted barque by the German shipyard Motorwerke Bremerhaven and was re-launched in 1988 as Alexander von Humboldt. In 2011 the ship was taken off sail-training and sent to the Caribbean for the charter business, then she was converted to a botel.
Sight 24: Martinikirche
The St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in the old town of Bremen. It is located near the Weser river and is one of the oldest churches in the city.
Sight 25: Stadtwaage
The Stadtwaage at No. 13 Langenstraße in Bremen (Germany) is the building in which the municipal weighing scales used to be housed. The facility was created in order to levy taxes and excise duties while protecting merchants and customers against fraud and dishonesty.
Sight 26: 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 27: Town Musicians of Bremen
The "Town Musicians of Bremen" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819.
Sight 28: Bremer Loch
The Bremer Marktplatz is a square situated in the centre of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. One of the oldest public squares in the city, it covers an area of 3,484 m2 (37,500 sq ft). It is no longer used as a market place except for the Christmas market and the annual Freimarkt Fair at the end of October.
Sight 29: Reiterstandbild Otto von Bismarck
The Bismarck monument outside the cathedral in Bremen is a bronze figure of the former Chancellor, riding a horse. It was created in 1910, twelve years after Bismarck's death. The commission was entrusted to Adolf von Hildebrand in 1904. Since 1973 the monument has enjoyed protected status.
Sight 30: Neptunbrunnen
The Neptune Fountain on the Domshof in Bremen is a work of art by the sculptor Waldemar Otto, which was erected in 1991. It is one of the few modern Neptune fountains.
Sight 31: Haus Vorwärts
The Haus Vorwärts at Sandstraße 4–5, right next to Bremen Cathedral, is one of the oldest buildings in Bremen's old town. Since 2005, the building has served as the House of Science for the association of the same name as a showcase for science. Previously, the Vorwärts association had its domicile here for over 120 years.
Sight 32: H. W. M. Olbers
The monument to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, the important Bremen physician and astronomer, was created by the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser in Rome in 1848. It was erected in 1850 in the Bremen ramparts. The property has been a listed building since 1973.
Sight 33: Sterbender Jüngling
The Dying Youth is a bronze statue created in 1936 by Herbert Kubica, which was originally erected in the centre of Bremen's old town during the Nazi era as a heroic monument to the members of the Freikorps Caspari and the Gerstenberg Division who died in the fight against the Bremen Soviet Republic.
Sight 34: Ägina
The larger-than-life bronze figure of the Large Reclining or Aegina by Gerhard Marcks, cast in 1966, was erected in 1968 on the slope of the Theaterberg in Bremen's ramparts as one of the first sculptural enrichments of the period after the Second World War. Inspired by Günter Busch, the director of the Kunsthalle, Bremen had turned its attention to the work of Marcks, perhaps the most important figurative sculptor in Germany in the post-war years, with the founding of a sculpture museum dedicated to his work and named after him, as well as two publicly displayed free sculptures.
Sight 35: Das Ende
The monument Das Ende in the Bremer Wallanlagen in Bremen-Mitte was erected there in 1978 and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 36: Der Rosslenker
The Horse Driver is a bronze sculpture group by Louis Tuaillon, which was erected in 1902 in the ramparts (Bremen-Mitte). It is a listed building.
Sight 37: Torhäuschen
Original parts of the Bishop's Gate in Bremen, which was given its present shape in 1838 according to a design by building director Friedrich Moritz Stamm, are included in the reconstruction of the old square in the ramparts as well as essential parts at the entrance to the Egestorff Foundation in Bremen-Osterholz. At the same time, the associated gatehouse, which has served as a shop since 1848, was built on the bridge over the moat.
Sight 38: Metropol Theater Bremen
The Metropol Theater Bremen is a venue in Bremen, Germany. There are events of various kinds, from musicals to RTL's super talent or concerts by well-known artists.
Sight 39: Fragment
The fragment is a sculpture ensemble in Bremen-Mitte, on Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz near the House of the Reich, which was erected in 1991 on the 50th anniversary of Rudolf Hilferding's death. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 40: Romari
The Romari sculpture is located in Bremen – Mitte at Präsident-Kennedy-Platz/Contrescarpe in front of BLG's headquarters. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 41: Raupe
Caterpillar is a light sculpture in Bremen. It is located in Bremen-Mitte at Präsident-Kennedy-Platz at the Bremen State Archives and is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 42: Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat
The Consular Agency of the United States in Bremen, also referred to as Consular Agency Bremen, was one of the American diplomatic missions to Germany until 2018. The unit offered limited services for U.S. citizens in areas including Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony. Despite that, services such as the issuing of visas or emergency passports were not provided, but can be obtained only from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate General in Frankfurt or Munich.
Wikipedia: Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen (EN), Website
Sight 43: Agamemnon
The sculpture Agamemnon stands in Bremen-Mitte in the courtyard of BLG's headquarters on Präsident-Kennedy-Platz. It is listed in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen.
Sight 44: Steinernes Kreuz
The Vasmer Cross is a cross of atonement in the Mitte district of Bremen, district of Ostertor, on the street Beim Steinernen Kreuz No. 10. It was erected in 1435 as a memorial of atonement for the execution of Bremen's mayor Johann Vasmer. The property has been a listed building since 1973 as part of the Beim Steinernen Kreuz ensemble. It is the oldest monument in Bremen after Roland.
Sight 45: Cinema im Ostertor
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.
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