Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Bremerhaven, Germany

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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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.

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The Bremerhaven lower light is one of two lighthouses of the Bremerhaven directional light line. Together with the Bremerhaven upper light, the Simon Löschen Lighthouse, the lower light shows the way to ships coming from Bremen and sailing down the Weser.

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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.

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

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The Welle is a steamship that was built in 1915 by the Atlas-Werke Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen for the building authority for the Lower Weser correction. This straightening was one of the largest hydraulic engineering projects of the Empire, along with the Oder-Ems Canal.

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The Greenland is the oldest seagoing vessel in Germany still sailing today and a former research vessel. Built in Norway in 1867, the Greenland was the ship of the First German North Polar Expedition in 1868. It now belongs to the fleet of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.

Wikipedia: Grönland (Schiff) (DE), 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 Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche Bremerhaven was built in 1863 on the corner of Rampenstraße and Keilstraße and replaced in 1877 by a slightly larger church on the same site, which was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War. In 1952, a former ethnological museum on Bgm.-Martin-Donandt-Platz was converted into the third Kreuzkirche, making it Bremerhaven's first post-war church.

Wikipedia: Kreuzkirche (Bremerhaven) (DE), Website

The Pestalozzi School Bremerhaven in Bremerhaven - Lehe am Leher Tor, Wiener Straße 3, was inaugurated in 1910 as a double elementary school for boys and girls. It later became a secondary school or business high school and is now a primary school. It is named after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.

Wikipedia: Pestalozzischule Bremerhaven (DE), Website

The Villa Rabien in Bremerhaven, An der Allee 10, corner of Kurfürstenstraße, was built in 1903 according to plans by the building contractor Wilhelm Rogge.

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The nucleus of the Rickmers shipping company was the Rickmers shipyard, founded in 1834 by Rickmer Clasen Rickmers in Bremerhaven. Later, the company was expanded to include a shipping company and various rice mills. The shipping companies operated by the two brothers Bertram R. C. Rickmers and Erck Rickmers, descendants of the company's founder in the fifth generation, were sold to the Zeaborn shipping company in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

Wikipedia: Rickmers Reederei (DE), Website

The Villa Seedorf in Bremerhaven-Lehe, district of Klushof, Hafenstraße 14, was built in 1877.

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The Villa Kistner in Bremerhaven-Lehe, district of Klushof, Hafenstraße 50, dates from 1897.

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The residential building at Hafenstraße 54 in Bremerhaven-Lehe, district of Klushof, Hafenstraße 54, dates from 1870.

Wikipedia: Wohnhaus Hafenstraße 54 (DE), Website