Fan Guide Bremen (english version)
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Welcome to Bremen
Bremen – a wonderful place to live. A modern city with a great maritime past.
Its roots are what have made the city the international and cosmopolitan centre that it is today. Traditions of liberalism and tolerance developed over centuries define the way the people engage with one another. Bremen combines the Hanseatic cosmopolitan outlook and the compact nature of a city-state with a young, forward-looking frame of mind to create an unmistakable charm that has drawn people to Bremen throughout the centuries.
Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A port city along the river Weser.
Bremen is well worth a visit!
Politics
The Stadtbürgerschaft (municipal assembly) is made up of 68 of the 83 legislators of the state legislature, the Bremische Bürgerschaft, who reside in the city of Bremen. The legislature is elected by the citizens of Bremen every four years.
Gallery
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Schnoor quarter
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Universum Sience Center
Windmill on the Wall
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Schlachte, the medieval harbour
The Ratskeller - traditional tavern
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Technology Park Bremen
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Boettcherstreet
Town Hall - St. Peter's Cathedral
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The Roland
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Main sights
Vibrant history Bremen's history stretches back more than 1200 years, and is still tangible today. You can feel it in the baroque and Renaissance ambience of the market square, for example, with the "Town Hall" and see it in the patrician town houses and "The Schuetting", Bremen's historical guildhall. These are impressive symbols of the Hanseatic and Republican mentality. A tradition of which the people of Bremen are justly proud.
Many of the sights in Bremen are found in the "Old Town", (Altstadt). The oldest part of the Old Town is the southeast half, starting with: "The Marketplace", "The Roland Statue", "The Cathedral St. Petri", "The Town Musicians", "The Ratskeller" (a traditional tavern), "The Lead-Cellar" (with an original Mummy) "The Boetterstreet" and ending at "The Schnoor" quarter.
Another highlights in Bremen are: "The Windmill on the Wall" and The Universum Science Center
Curiosities
Eating kale and pinkel or spitting on a stone? Discover Bremen's curiosities.
- Spitting stone
You'll have to look quite carefully to spot this, as it is fairly inconspicuous - just a paving stone with an inlaid cross. The stone on the western side of the cathedral marks the spot where the poisoner Gesche Gottfried lost her life in Bremen's last public execution in 1831. "Germany's most successful poisoner" had been convicted of 15 actual and 15 attempted murders. Even today, the people of Bremen still convey their disgust with a well-aimed shot at the spitting stone.
- Sweeping the cathedral steps
A spectacle which often puzzles visitors is the sight of a young man in a top hat sweeping the steps of the cathedral while the crowd around him continue to cover it in bottle tops. This continues until a young girl (a virgin) delivers the sweeper with a kiss. This is a Bremen tradition for any bachelor who reaches his 30th birthday without finding a bride.
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is a traditional North German type of sausage made from a particular section of pig's intestine stuffed with oatmeal. The dish is traditionally eaten on an excursion with friends or work colleagues, a quintessential Bremen custom known as a "kale and pinkel trip".
Events
- Freimarkt
The term fun fair doesn't do it justice, even if Bremen's main public festival may look like one at first glance. Locals call the Freimarkt in October their "fifth season" and celebrate it just as carnival. The Freimarkt the largest traditional festival in northern Germany, as well as the oldest, having been celebrated since 1035.
- Samba in Bremen
More than 19 years ago, a couple of enthusiats gatherd for the first Samba group in Bremen. Since then a lot of Samba groups have arisen. The highlight of the year is the annual Bremer Karneval, first performed in 1985, where a continuously growing number of samba, percussion and brass bands and masked groups from Bremen, Germany and the neighbouring countries meet to drive out the winter.
- Six Day cycle race
Bremen is also host for the Six Day race a bicycle race at the AWD-Dome.
Industries
Bremen is also a producer of premium German beer and top quality coffee. Other goodies produced here which contribute to the epicurean spread include quality chocolate products, fine herbs and spices, numerous breakfast snacks and tempting fish specialities.
Beck & Co's (today InBev) headlining brew Beck's and St Pauli Girl beers are brewed in Bremen. In past centuries when Bremen's port was the "key to Europe".
Several high-tech industries have settled in the city. Many of Germany's space technology exports are manufactured in EADS Astrium facilities in Bremen.
Furthermore, Bremen is the home of the second biggest Airbus plant of Germany.
There is also a Mercedes-Benz factory in Bremen, building the C, CLK, SL, and SLK series of cars.
Hotels in Bremen
Transport
Bremen has an international Airport situated in the south of the city. The major business and leisure airport for Bremen and the whole of north-west Germany offers an outstanding range of international connections.
Ground transportation
The Tram number 6 departs every 5 to 10 minutes (on Sundays up to 30 min) to Bremen City Center. The ride takes 11 minutes and costs €2.20. In the Tram is a blue box where you can buy your ticket (not with Visa or Mastercard)
Or you can take a Taxi. The taxi drivers accept Visa- and MasterCards.
