Bremen: sights and the history of the city of successful businessmen

On the map of Northern Europe, a small point is marked by one of the richest, most developed and most successful German cities - Bremen. Attractions, of which there are many, are able to satisfy all the requests of the most fastidious tourist. Their great diversity is due to the successful geographical location of this German "Northern Palmyra", thanks to which Bremen has for centuries remained in the thick of historical events and has always been a major focus of political, scientific and cultural life.

Today, this tenth largest German city with a population of 547,685 people is also a very prosperous large industrial megalopolis where the plant of the automobile concern Daimler is located, the enterprises for the production of various echo sounders, sonar systems and sonars, as well as the company that produces high-tech space systems of the ONV . And this is not counting the numerous companies for the production of consumer goods. In general, Bremen, whose sights fully reflect all the stages of the historical development of this Hanseatic city, not for nothing gained the glory of a "successful businessman."

Founded by Charles the Great in 787 as a bishopric, Bremen after several centuries became a free Hanseatic city and the center of the homonymous land, to which Bremershafen is also a part. By the way, this state formation is considered the oldest in the vastness of modern Germany. Soon the city became the main center of the Catholic life of Northern Europe, thanks to which was nicknamed the Northern Rome.

In the year 965, Bremen, whose sights, in no small part, belong to this historical period, was given the right to free trade activities and a whole series of privileges for the merchant class. From this moment the rapid development of Bremen begins, which allowed him to soon gain the glory of a "successful businessman." The city conducted intensive activities not only in the trade and economic sphere, but also in the political sphere. In the sixteenth century, during its highest medieval development, Bremen adopted Protestantism and became the mainstay of the Reformation.

The unification of German lands in 1871 also included this "Northern Palmyra" with the status of a free city in the newly formed empire. Bremen remained so until the Nazis came to power. During the Third Reich, the city had a key role in building up the country's military potential. This is not surprising - then Bremen was one of the most industrialized German cities. A lot of cruisers, torpedo boats and even battleships were launched from the shipyards of the Bremen port, including such monsters of war at sea as "Koenig", "Kronprinz" and "Markgraf".

Bremen, whose sights are still able to tell a lot of interesting about the industrial creators of the triumphs of Admiral Raeder in the initial period of the naval war, was badly affected by the shuttle bombing of the allied aircraft and was occupied by American troops in 1945. And from 1947 the city became part of the FRG.

And although today the renewed and prosperous Bremen is a little apart from the popular tourist trails, there are a huge number of historical, cultural and architectural monuments reflecting the turbulent history of Northern Europe and capable of provoking genuine interest among the most demanding and fastidious traveler. This, for example, is an ensemble of the market square, traditional for most ancient German cities, on which a spectacular monument to the characters of the beloved worldwide fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" is installed. There, to the right of the Town Hall building, you can see the magnificent equestrian monument erected in honor of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck.

The sights of Bremen include the shortest street of the city (about a hundred meters long) - Böttenherstrasse, in the sixteenth century there were only seven houses. It is also necessary to mention the famous rhododendron park with a botanical museum and the Kunsthalle art gallery, where fans of painting can contemplate many canvases of Durer, the Impressionists and a large collection of works by Max Beckmann.

Exquisite and pedantic truly German service will please any traveler numerous city hotels. Bremen is always ready to provide its curious tourists with their historical and artistic treasures, as well as create maximum comfort for them. Here is one of the largest museums in Europe of natural history and ethnography. But Bremen is famous not only for monuments of past eras. Since 2000, a very ambitious and very ambitious architectural project called "The Sea City" has been implemented, which will serve as the business district of the city.

Another example of innovative architectural technologies is the "Universum" scientific center that looks like a flying saucer. And inside it there are about two hundred and fifty interactive expositions, which are devoted to the evolution of the Earth, man and space. The goal of the creators of such an unprecedented museum was to turn boring science into an exciting adventure. Here you can find answers to many different questions, experience the most extraordinary sensations of flight, weightlessness, immersion. And many other experiments are available in this high-tech location.