Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Bremerhaven, Germany

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

St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the centre of Bremerhaven, Germany. It belongs to the parish of the Sacred 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

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche in Bremerhaven belongs to a congregation of the United Churches consisting of Lutherans and Reformed. Belonging to the Bremen Evangelical Church from the beginning, it is still the only congregation of this regional church in Bremerhaven. The correct name of the "Great Church" is United Protestant Community to the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche. Since 1927, Bremerhaven's main church, like the main shopping street, has been named after Mayor Johann Smidt.

Wikipedia: Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche (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 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 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.

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

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.

Wikipedia: Wal (Schiff, 1938) (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 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 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.

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)