Überseestadt

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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 47 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 9 ″  E

Speicher XI , front: harbor museum, restaurant and Bremen Center for Building Culture; back: University of the Arts
Roland mill with 12 silos
Old fire station and old customs office Holzhafen near the Überseetor

The Überseestadt in Bremen has been part of the Walle district since 2009 . At the same time, Überseestadt is the name of an urban development project that is currently being implemented in the old port areas in Bremen in terms of designing a modern waterfront . The project envisages long-term development of the old port area into an attractive location for business activities that are as value-adding as possible. It is about the development of the existing stock as well as the settlement of new services, business and living space. With around 300 hectares, it is currently one of the largest inner-city urban development projects in Europe.

In terms of area and the planned investment amount, the project is a special feature within a European framework that makes it comparable to the London Docklands and Hamburg's HafenCity .

geography

Building renovation as part of the "Speicherhafen" project

The Überseestadt urban development project includes the Überseestadt district (formerly commercial ports) and Waller Wied, which belongs to the Steffensweg district . It extends between the districts of Mitte and Gröpelingen along the Weser. The area is 4.5 kilometers long and one kilometer wide. On the land side, it is bounded by Hans-Böckler-Straße  / Nordstraße  / Bremerhavener Straße .

After the Second World War, the area was mainly used industrially until the urban development project was implemented. Only in a tightly closed area between Nordstrasse and Bogenstrasse, the Waller Wied, was the residential development destroyed in the war restored in the 1950s. The northern third of Überseestadt and the areas directly on the Weser are still industrial. The Holz- und Fabrikenhafen continues to be used conventionally as a port. The Europahafen will remain as a port basin, but it will no longer be used as a port. The water area is mainly used for recreational shipping, while the Europahafen marina was built on the north side . The adjacent land areas are reserved for service companies and residential purposes.

history

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Timber and factory harbor

The silting difficult at the beginning of the 17th century ship traffic on the river Weser . Ocean-going ships no longer headed for the ports ( Schlachte ) in the city center , but downriver, initially Vegesack , later Brake (Unterweser) and, from 1827, Bremerhaven . In order to bring lucrative trade and shipping back into the city, Bremen built a free port downstream of the city center from 1887 . The project was successful, after the first port basin - later called the Europahafen - further docks followed downstream, most recently the overseas port in 1906. Port operations on the Schlachte were discontinued.

The overseas port and the European port were classic general cargo ports. The container era began in Bremen in 1964 . In 1966 the first container ship to appear in Europe , the Fairland , moored in the overseas port . Since 1967 there has also been a provisional facility for RoRo ships in this port . In the period that followed, the volume of general cargo decreased - general cargo ended in the 1980s. New ships were built with more capacity and draft, so that the 19th century ports, the associated storage areas and the Weser were too narrow for modern needs. Equipping the two ports with RoRo terminals in 1967 and 1972 could not stop their economic decline. Due to the considerable dilapidation of the quays, the overseas port was closed in 1991. Since there was no longer any need for the port and securing it appeared too costly, the port basin was filled in 1998 with around 3.5 million cubic meters of sand that arose during dredging work in the Outer Weser. This created the basis for the “Überseestadt” urban development project.

Due to the changed use of the overseas port area, the administrative districts of the city ​​of Bremen were reorganized by the local law of March 24, 2009 (BremGBl p. 93). As a result, the former Handelshäfen district was spun off from the Häfen district and incorporated into the Walle district as the Überseestadt district.

Urban development project

In 2000, the Bremen Senate decided on the “Development Concept for the Restructuring of the Old Harbor Districts in Bremen”. In 2003 the "Überseestadt master plan" was adopted.

The southern third of Überseestadt, closest to the city, was accessed via Lloydstrasse and Eduard-Schopf- Allee, Überseestadt-Mitte through the Hansator and Überseestadt-Nord through Überseetor and Emder Strasse. Eduard-Schopf-Allee is a new connecting road that crosses under the B 6 elevated road, which was built in the 1960s , and thus connects Überseestadt to the city ​​center via the Am Wall traffic train - and thus creates a new spatial relationship. Numerous streets have also been renovated, relocated or newly laid out within Überseestadt.

A tram line has been built parallel to the previous route through Überseestadt-Süd and Überseestadt-Mitte, which has been served by tram line 3 since December 2006 and also by tram line 5 since March 2019. Line 3 previously ran along the edge of Überseestadt. Line 3 runs between Europahafen and Eduard-Schopf-Allee on a 4-rail track ; The port freight railroad will carry out handover trips for Kelloggs on the relocated track .

In April 2007, the city council decided on a development plan according to which residential, commercial and office buildings are to be built on the edge of the water in the northwest of Überseestadt, in the Überseepark district , which are separated from the adjacent commercial areas by a narrow green strip.

The first commercial enterprise to be relocated in the context of urban development was the wholesale market in Überseestadt-Nord in November 2002. In Überseestadt-Nord, additional areas are planned for industrial enterprises.

In the course of urban development, numerous service companies are settling in the partly renovated and partly newly built buildings in Überseestadt. Large office space is offered in Speicher I (renovation 2006) and Storage XI (renovation 2001/03), two converted storage buildings with impressive dimensions. In the renovated storage facility XI, a former cotton storage facility, are u. a. the Hafenmuseum , the Speicherbühne and the Bremen University of the Arts with the Department of Free Art and Design moved in.

In the so-called Weser Quarter of Überseestadt around the former Weserbahnhof , the 82 meter high Weser Tower designed by Helmut Jahn is the tallest office building in the city. Further office buildings, leisure and catering establishments, a hotel, a theater etc. are under construction or have already been completed, like the Hilde-Adolf-Park.

In October 2017, an agreement was reached between the city of Bremen and Kellog's Germany, according to which the adjacent area of ​​the former breakfast cereal factory should be jointly developed. The wind power company wpd AG is an investor who wants to buy the site and transform it into a “green area” that is to be supplied by wind energy.

Sights and culture

Buildings

Molenfeuer Überseehafen South

Culture

Timber and factory harbor , fire station

  • Fire station restaurant
  • Hafencasino (Trucker Stop)
  • Magic Theater Bremen

Storage XI, stevedoring, energy control center

Shed 1

  • Center for automotive culture
  • The Key Bremen
  • Al Dar Bremen restaurant

Shed 2

  • Event loft

Europahafen

  • Golden City harbor bar

schools

  • The port technical college in the state of Bremen , Tilsiter Strasse 8-10
  • The CASA e. V. International Language School in Speicher XI

Economy, authorities and traffic

economy

Larger companies (selection)

Authorities

  • GeoInformation Bremen , State Office for Cadastre - Surveying - Real Estate Valuation - Information Systems, Lloydstrasse 4

traffic

In addition to the already mentioned tram lines 3 and 5, Überseestadt is served by three bus lines:

  • Bus route 20 Überseestadt - Hohweg
  • Bus route 26 Huckelriede - Hauptbahnhof - Findorff - Walle - Überseestadt
  • Bus route 28 Universität - Findorff - Überseestadt

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ Master plan - Überseestadt Bremen. ueberseestadt-bremen.de, archived from the original on December 16, 2010 ; Retrieved October 17, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Location of Opportunities - WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH, accessed on May 31, 2020
  3. ↑ Harald Czycholl: Bremen's Überseestadt is Europe's largest construction project , report in Die Welt on October 22, 2011
  4. ↑ Harald Czycholl: Bremen's Überseestadt is Europe's largest building project ; welt.de from October 22, 2011 , accessed on October 22, 2011
  5. ↑ Godehard Weyerer: 50 years ago. The first container ship in the Bremen overseas port. In: Deutschlandfunk . May 6, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . Löbe, Bremen seaport. P. 277.
  6. ↑ http://www.bauleitplan.bremen.de/bplan.php?BP_NR=2335
  7. ↑ Überseestadt construction boom unbroken, Weser Kurier, November 1, 2012
  8. ↑ Maren Beneke: A Bremen solution for the Kellogg area. In: Weser Kurier, November 2, 2017.
  9. ^ Center for Automobile Culture , accessed on October 22, 2014
  10. ^ The Key - Live Escape Game in Bremen. Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Shed 2 - Event Loft
  12. ↑ Golden City Hafenbar , accessed on October 22, 2014

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