Bremen & Bremerhaven 2017
Bremen
- Short trip to the North of German
In August, I went to Bremen and Bremerhaven with my researching group.
We made a guided city tour thorugh the city of Bremen and went to the Klimahaus in Bremerhaven.
The city tour started in the Old Town with the Market Square. The Town Hall of Bremen was erected between 1405 and 1410 in Gothic style, but the facade was built two centuries later in Renaissance style. The Town Hall is the seat of the President of the Senate of Bremen and it also hosts a restaurant - the Ratskeller - where we went to eat dinner. Two statues stand to the west side of the Town Hall. One of them is the statue Bremer Roland (1404), which was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, together with the Town Hall, in 2004. The second statue is the statue of the Town Musicians (Bremer Stadtmusikanten), which portrays the donkey, dog, cat and rooster of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. Moreover, we also saw the Bremen Cathedral.
Then, we went to the Böttcherstraße. It's a street in the historic centre of Bremen. It's only about 100 m long, but it's famous for its unusual architecture. The most of the buildings were erected between 1922 and 1931, primarily as a result of the initiative of Ludwig Roselius, a Bremen-based coffee-trader. Since 1973, the ensemble has been protected by the monument protection act. Finally, we went to Schnoor, which is a district in the neighbourhood of the medieval centre. It owes its name to old handicrafts associated with shipping.
The next day, we went to Bremerhaven, a city at the seaport of Bremen. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Weser river. The highlight there was our visit in the "Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost". It was opened the 26th June 2009 by the Irish human rights activist Bob Geldorf. It offers the possibility of a virtual trip around the world along the 8th eastern longitude. We could learn a lot about different climate zones and the cultures.
The city tour started in the Old Town with the Market Square. The Town Hall of Bremen was erected between 1405 and 1410 in Gothic style, but the facade was built two centuries later in Renaissance style. The Town Hall is the seat of the President of the Senate of Bremen and it also hosts a restaurant - the Ratskeller - where we went to eat dinner. Two statues stand to the west side of the Town Hall. One of them is the statue Bremer Roland (1404), which was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, together with the Town Hall, in 2004. The second statue is the statue of the Town Musicians (Bremer Stadtmusikanten), which portrays the donkey, dog, cat and rooster of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. Moreover, we also saw the Bremen Cathedral.
Then, we went to the Böttcherstraße. It's a street in the historic centre of Bremen. It's only about 100 m long, but it's famous for its unusual architecture. The most of the buildings were erected between 1922 and 1931, primarily as a result of the initiative of Ludwig Roselius, a Bremen-based coffee-trader. Since 1973, the ensemble has been protected by the monument protection act. Finally, we went to Schnoor, which is a district in the neighbourhood of the medieval centre. It owes its name to old handicrafts associated with shipping.
The next day, we went to Bremerhaven, a city at the seaport of Bremen. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Weser river. The highlight there was our visit in the "Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost". It was opened the 26th June 2009 by the Irish human rights activist Bob Geldorf. It offers the possibility of a virtual trip around the world along the 8th eastern longitude. We could learn a lot about different climate zones and the cultures.
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