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BEST OF BREMEN Vilnius Hubs Flight destinations Amsterdam London/Stansted Frankfurt Munich Stuttgart Varna Valid from 28.03.2021 from Valid Burgas Sofia Istanbul Skopje Ankara Izmir Antalya Málaga Majorca Crete/ Rhodes Summer destinations BRE from Heraklion Time for a turnaround! Gran Canaria Last updated 17.02.2021. Subject to changes. bremen-airport.com RZ_Destikarte_DINA6_170221.indd 2 17.02.21 12:35 WWW.BREMENSBESTESEITEN.DE 4 HISTORY 12 22 ECONOMY SCIENCE 28 40 SOCIETY FOOD & DRINK 48 58 CULTURE FAMOUS NAMES 66 SPORT HISTORY FISHTOWNKING When, on the 1st October 1958, a Elvis Presley, the ‘King of Rock ’n’ ship transporting over 1,000 US Roll’ was on board. The American soldiers docked at the Columbus- superstar had been stationed in kaje in Bremerhaven, the curiosity Europe on military service. His of onlookers and reporters could first steps on German soil were barely be contained. The reason: thus taken in the harbour town. 4 5 TAKING PART IS BIRTHPLACE WHAT COUNTS OF THE EURO Since 1358, the Free Hanseatic In 1978, with its resolution to set City of Bremen has been a member up a European currency system, of the Hanseatic League. With ac- the conference of the European cession, the city guaranteed that it Council in Bremen’s Rathaus laid would respect all decisions and ru- one of the cornerstones of the ECU les of the Hansa. This is as much in – the predecessor of the Euro. force today as it was before and is One of the main drivers of the an important part of local identity. top secret diplomatic nego- That is why, even today, business tiations was the German between Hanseatic merchants is chancellor of the time, frequently sealed with a simple Helmut Schmidt. handshake. TAKING THE BREMEN ACROSS from Dublin to Greenly Island in Canada in around 36 hours and THE POND can still be admired today in the Bremen Hall of the local airport. The aircraft ‘Bremen’, a Junkers What’s more, one year later North W33, was the first to cross the At- German Lloyd’s steamer ‘Bremen’ lantic from East to West on the 12th received the Blue Ribbon for the April 1928. It completed the stretch fastest Atlantic crossing. HISTORY HARBOUR LET IT ROLL! PIONEERS The Cinema im Ostertor was foun- The first artificially created har- ded in 1969 as the first art house bour in Europe was built in 1618 cinema in Germany, and remains in Bremen-Vegesack. This was to this day the first port of call for necessary because the Weser was film buffs aside from the Hollywood gradually silting up towards its up- mainstream. per reaches, so that the large tra- ding ships could no longer reach the harbour in the old town of Bremen. WHO DARES WINS ‘Buten un binnen – wagen un win- 1902) and hangs resplendent above nen’, that is, ‘outside and in – to the entrance of the Schütting, the dare and to win’, remains today the seat of the Bremen Chamber of slogan of the Bremen merchants. It Commerce, directly on the market is ascribed to the former mayor of square. Bremen, Otto Gildemeister (1823- 7 OVER 600 YEARS OF WORLD HERITAGE They decorate Bremen’s ‘front sance styles, and the stone statue room’, the marketplace, and are of Roland. Since 2004, the ensem- the landmarks of the Hanseatic ble has been a UNESCO World He- city: the Rathaus (city hall), built in ritage Site. 1405 in Gothic and Weser Renais- CITY GUARD Roland has gained renown as a cluding in New York and Rolândia symbol of freedom the world over in Brazil. Napoleon himself is said – and it all began in Bremen. This to have been so impressed with the figure represents emancipation Roland statue during the French from the church and the citizens’ occupation that he wanted to have independence. There are now more it dismantled and put on display at than 85 preserved and new Roland the Louvre in Paris. statues all around the globe, in- HISTORY BIRTHPLACE OF THE NAKED THE HELICOPTER TRUTH Bremen-born aviation pioneer In 1905 the open-air bathing area Henrich Focke created the world’s on the Stadtwerder peninsula was first fully functional helicopter extended to allow for naturist ba- – the FW-61. The prototype’s thers. This makes this spot on the successful maiden flight took Weser one of the first of its kind in place on 26th June 1936 on the site Germany. of what is now Bremen Airport. BARELY CONTAINABLE On the 6th of May 1966, the US ling in doing so. But beginnings vessel ‘Fairland’ unloaded the first are always tricky, and this was no shipping container ever brought exception: the second container to onto a German dock, revoluti- be unloaded accidentally crashed onising maritime cargo hand- onto a lorry. 8 IT innovtions mde by the digitl fmily Bremen – hotspot of the digitl future tem neust unites numerous neust-compnies nd strt-ups into one big ‘digitl fmily’ t the Übersee Cmpus. The spirit of innovtion is omnipresent in the historic Schuppen Eins nd the modern Office Center Überseestdt – mong other things, this is ensured by qulified young tlents from locl universities. Using gile processes, our experts develop customised softwre, mobile nd e-commerce solutions nd offer services including concept, communiction, design nd usbility. 9 temnest HISTORY BUILT NEAR THE WATER Did you know? The name of the what antiquated term ‘verbrämen’, city is derived from the old Saxon meaning to decorate the edge of word ‘bremo’ and means ‘on the something, and the English word edge’, referring to its position on ‘brim’ are also derived from this the dunes by the Weser. The some- root. NORTHERN LIGHT Named after its location at a shal- low point in the Weser estuary, the Roter Sand lighthouse first entered service in 1885, and is the oldest offshore building in the world. With the lighthouse out of service, the tower is now a listed building. UNDER THE FIRST FULL STEAM IN BREMEN Germany’s first ever steamerplied On the 10th June 1950, the con- the stretch between Bremen and sortium of public-service broad- Brake between 1817 and 1833 and casters in Germany was founded was called ‘Die Weser’. in Bremen – that’s ARD for short. 11 TALLEST IN TOWN As one of the most prominent vi- sual exclamation marks in the city, the Cathedral of St. Peter (St. Petri Dom) was built at the highest point in the city – the Bremen dune. The- re is an old tradition that no other building may exceed the cathedral in height. A blind eye is turned only for functional buildings, such as the television tower and drop-to- wer, where technical reasons re- quire it. Inside the cathedral, the only ‘Bleikeller’ (lead cellar) in Germany offers real fascination: it was here that centuries-old mum- mies, discovered during organ construction in the 17th century, found their final resting place. STARS & STRIPES MEETS BREMEN’S “BACON FLAG“ In 1794, the USA opened one of its the end of the American War of In- first European General Consulates dependence in 1783, the Hanseatic in Bremen – at the personal re- city has nurtured close trade rela- quest of George Washington. Since tionships with the United States. ECONOMY FAST CARS Bremen’s Sebaldsbrück district is cars every year. Daimler has been home to the second largest Merce- making cars at this site since 1978, des factory in the world (and the with more than ten different mo- largest one in Germany), where dels now rolling off the production around 12,500 members of staff line here. This includes the EQC1 work to produce a good 400,000 electric car as of 2019. 13 LOFTY COTTONING HEIGHTS ON One of Europe’s largest and most As the birthplace of Germany’s modern high-bay warehouses is cotton trade, Bremen has been operated by the BLG Logistics home to the Bremen Cotton Ex- Group in Bremen at Germany’s lar- change for almost 150 years. gest cargo distribution centre. The Already at the start of the 17th warehouse handles two million century the Hanseatic city started pallets each year – that equates to importing the raw material which 8,000 every day. is now used in clothing, pharma- ceuticals and even bank notes. FROM BRE ACROSS THE WORLD Founded back in 1913, Bremen Europe and North Africa, including Airport was the first in Germany to a number of major international have a paved runway. And now it is hubs. It is also Europe’s fastest the gateway to the rest of the world departure airport and is just an for the region, with direct flights eleven-minute tram journey away taking off to many destinations in from Bremen city centre. ECONOMY SETTING SAIL With well over 1.3 million cars thousand cars enter and leave the being handled every year, the har- Weser estuary harbour, which co- bour city of Bremerhaven is Euro- vers the equivalent of 450 football pe’s hub for automotive imports fields. and exports. Every day, several IN AND OUT Bremen is a hotspot within the region, with around 120,000 com- muters making their way from the surrounding Lower Saxony area every day. In fact, commuters ac- count for over 20% of Bremen’s workforce. CRADLE OF A BIT OF CAR TRADE AND FOR EVERYONE CRAFTS Over 25 years ago the people of Bremen began to share cars. The Bremen Chamber of Comm- It was through this that the city erce (1451) and Bremen Chamber became the first to establish of Crafts (1849) are the oldest in a politically agreed car-sharing Germany.