WeserstadionÖstliche VorstadtWeserstadion stands beside the Weser River in Bremen, a city football ground on a green peninsula reached by a short walk from the centre. The stadium’s name comes from the old word for river island, Werder, and the pitch lies just north of the water. It has been the home of Bundesliga club Werder Bremen since the… read moreOpen place
Town Hall of BremenMitteBremen City Hall stands on the northeastern side of the market square in the historic city centre. It is a protected historical building and, with the nearby statue of Roland, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The building combines Brick Gothic and Weser Renaissance styles, showing Bremen’s civic autonomy in the Holy… read moreOpen place
Bremen RolandMitteThe Bremen Roland is a stone statue of Roland, a knight from medieval legend, standing in the market square of Bremen. It faces the cathedral and shows Roland with his sword drawn and shield bearing the imperial eagle. The statue was carved in 1404 from limestone and replaced an earlier wooden version destroyed in the… read moreOpen place
Bremen CathedralMitteBremen Cathedral stands in the market square at the heart of Bremen. The present building mixes medieval brickwork with older stone parts and a crossing tower added in the 19th century. It occupies the site of an earlier timber church built by Saint Willehad in 789. Over the centuries the cathedral has been rebuilt… read moreOpen place
Beck'sBremenBeck’s Brewery stands in the Neustadt district of Bremen, a northern German city on the banks of the Weser. Founded in 1873 by Heinrich Beck with partners Lüder Rutenberg and Thomas May, it began as the Kaiser-Brauerei Beck & May o.H.G. The brewery’s red-brick buildings line a quiet street where the clatter of brewing… read moreOpen place
Kunsthalle BremenMitteThe Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, close to the Old Town on the Culture Mile. The building began in 1847 on a former rubbish dump near the old city ramparts and opened in 1849. It was enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister and expanded again in 2011. The museum holds European paintings from… read moreOpen place
Archbishopric of BremenBremenBremen’s cathedral hill stands where the Weser leaves the old marshland and climbs to the first sandy ridges. The first wooden church, built by Willehad in 789, was replaced by a stone cathedral in the 11th century and then rebuilt in Gothic style from the 13th century onward. The bishops who ruled here for centuries… read moreOpen place
AG WeserBremenAG Weser stands on the banks of the Weser in Bremen’s Gröpelingen district. Founded in 1872, it grew from a small ironworks into one of Germany’s leading shipyards. By 1983, when it closed, the yard had launched about 1,400 vessels of every kind. The yard’s importance is measured by the ships it built. Among them was… read moreOpen place
Bremer Marktplatz ensembleMitteBremen’s Marktplatz stands in the heart of the old Hanseatic city, a square of sandstone and brick surrounded by buildings that have stood for centuries. Once the river Balge formed its southern edge, the first port where boats tied up long ago. By the 13th century the uneven ground was levelled and plastered in… read moreOpen place
Alexander von HumboldtMitteA three-masted barque built in 1906 at the AG Weser yard in Bremen, the Alexander von Humboldt began life as a lightship on the North and Baltic Seas. After decades of service marking safe channels, she was retired in 1986 and rebuilt in Bremerhaven to become a sail-training ship. In 2014 she was converted into a… read moreOpen place
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