16 Facts About Bremerhaven

1.

In 1848, Bremerhaven became the home port of the German Confederation's Navy under Karl Rudolf Brommy.

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2.

In 1924, Geestemunde and the neighbouring municipality of Lehe were united to become the new city of Wesermunde, and in 1939 Bremerhaven was removed from the jurisdiction of Bremen and made a part of Wesermunde, then a part of the Prussian Province of Hanover.

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3.

Bremerhaven was one of the important harbours of emigration in Europe.

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4.

All of Wesermunde, including those parts which did not previously belong to Bremerhaven, was a postwar enclave run by the United States within the British zone of northern Germany.

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5.

Today, Bremerhaven is a city in its own right, but part of the city-state of Bremen, which is for all intents and purposes a state comprising two cities.

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6.

Port of Bremerhaven is the sixteenth-largest container port in the world and the fourth-largest in Europe with 4.

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7.

The railways in Bremerhaven still carry a heavy load of freight traffic, mostly new cars, containers and food.

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8.

Bremerhaven has 2020 a bus network with 19 bus lines operated by BREMERHAVEN BUS.

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9.

Bremerhaven has only a few historical buildings, and the high street and city centre are almost entirely post-war.

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10.

The Bremerhaven Zoo reopened on 27 March 2004, after a lengthy renovation.

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11.

Every five years Sail Bremerhaven is held, a large sailing convention that attracts tall ships from all over the world.

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12.

In 2011 Bremerhaven set the record for the largest ever parade of boats, with 327 vessels in the parade.

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13.

Fischtown Pinguins, known as REV Bremerhaven, are a professional ice hockey team in the DEL, Germany's top ice hockey league.

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14.

Eisbaren Bremerhaven, founded 2001, is a basketball team playing in the German second-tier level league ProA.

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15.

TSV Wulsdorf and OSC Bremerhaven have a football teams but as part of a multi-sport club.

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16.

Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute, a national research institute which is concerned with maritime sciences and climate and keeps a number of research vessels, amongst them the heavy research icebreaker RV Polarstern.

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