Old Citizens (Bremerhaven)

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The trendy and pub district in the northern part of the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße in Bremerhaven is colloquially referred to as “old citizens” .

The trendy mile begins at Martin-Donandt-Platz and ends at Waldemar-Becke-Platz. Various restaurants and bars in this part of the Bürgermeister-Schmidt-Straße and its side streets offer live music of various styles, sports broadcasts and other special events. In 1989, after the popular “Wally” bar was closed, there were demonstrations among the young population. As a result, the quarter suffered a loss of image, which in part still affects today. This can be seen, among other things, in the fact that the numerous cultural events that are still taking place in the local media as well as on the official information offers from the state of Bremen and the city of Bremerhaven are either underrepresented or not given any attention at all. The "old citizens" experienced an upgrade through the first room theater "piccolo teatro haventheater", which is the only alternative in the professional drama offer next to the Bremerhaven City Theater in the city. Regular tours through the street are intended to remind of the history of the street.

history

From 1870 to 1910 the population of Alt-Bremerhaven, who lived in the confined space between the Weser and Geeste, grew from 10,200 to 24,200.

The borders of old Bremerhaven reached in 1869 as far as today's Waldemar-Becke-Platz . In 1892, the urban area for the port construction was expanded further north by Prussian assignments of territory. The roads leading to the north had to be extended in order to establish a direct connection to the new port facilities. The area north of the Grüner Strasse was ideal for this, as it was not suitable for port construction anyway. Until the beginning of the 1870s, this area of ​​today's Kaiserstrasse was laid out.

The scarce number of building plots, a high demand for living space for the workers and high land prices led to a high density building method. Five-storey tenements with large shops and as many apartments as possible were built on 500 m² of land . From 1902 to 1907 a residential area was built around Kaiserstrasse. These included Schleusenstraße, Cecilienstraße (today Donandtplatz), Sommer- und Gartenstraße, Am Grid and Kleine Straße, today the western part of Dresdner Straße. The old Bremerhavener Strasse, today's Gildemeisterstrasse, played a special role. Here on the Bremerhaven, i.e. the western side - the opposite side of the street still belonged to Lehe until 1905 - lordly villas with some impressive Art Nouveau facades were built.

House No. 85 is remarkable, as one of the first houses to be built on Kaiserstrasse at the northern end, at the corner of Rickmersstrasse . The builder was the landlord Heirich Spilker, who ran the hotel and restaurant Rother Sand here , which was transferred to the restaurateur Carl Vöge in 1907. The name Rotersand has been preserved to this day.

The city building commission suggested the name Kaiserstraße for the new, central street ; The Bremen Senate approved this in 1896.

Schleusenstraße got its name in 1897 after the Great Kaiserschleuse that was inaugurated three days earlier . In 1903 the Senate named Bremer Strasse, Kleine Strasse, Sommerstrasse and Gartenstrasse. In 1905 the names of Cecilienstraße and in 1908 Am Grid were added.

According to the address book from 1910, for example, the house of the master plumber Julius Carl Otto was occupied by two merchants, an accountant, a telegraph secretary, three stewards, a technician, a pantyman, two locksmiths, two machinists, a cook and four workers. House number 17 belonged to the merchant Ernst Jäger, who ran a men's cloakroom here. There lived: a Lloyd officer, an engineer, a businessman, a clerk, a registrar, two machinists, a locksmith and two workers. The lower earners lived in the rear, upper, narrower and darker apartments.

The house owners on Kaiserstrasse, Schleusenstrasse and Cecilienstrasse were mostly innkeepers and master craftsmen. The master painter JM Hoffmann, who had his business in Deichstrasse , owned 14 houses. Another nine houses were built and by two master bakers, one master painter, three master masons and one master plumber. Eight houses were owned by innkeepers who also ran their bars here, of which there were an unusually large number on Kaiserstrasse. The following professions are among the other homeowners: clerk, tailor, merchant, office assistant, Lloyd officer, city construction manager, steward, teacher, cooper, ship chandler and bank manager. An architect and a builder each owned three houses.

Friends of the Old Citizens eV

On March 20, 2014, the Friends of the Old Citizens was founded . Art and culture are on the program, the theme of the association is 'From pub mile to scene mile'. Workshop 212 was set up in May 2014, in which artists and those interested in art are supposed to work on the image of the street. Regular exhibitions, readings, courses and TreffArt, the artists' get-together for the old citizens, should take place here. The Repair Café has been taking place once a month in Werkstatt 212 since December 2014. The Findus culture café was added in mid-2016. Artists work in workshop 212. It is the think tank and meeting place for the residents of the district.

literature

  • Harry Gabcke et al. a .: Bremerhaven in two centuries, Volume 3: 1948–1991 . Nwd-Verlag, Bremerhaven 1992, p. 202
  • Evelyn Sjovall et al. a .: Kaiserstrasse, a street tells . Ditzen Druck und Verlags-GmbH, Bremerhaven 1981, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where does the old citizen begin ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 9, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beastybasti.de
  2. ^ Street party in the Alte Bürger , accessed on August 9, 2012
  3. ↑ Seestadtschnack Alte Bürger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on August 9, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / seestadtschnack.de
  4. ↑ From the pub mile to the trendy district , accessed on August 9, 2012.
  5. ^ Förderverein 'Die Alte bürger' ( Memento from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 14, 2014

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 11.5 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 15.2"  E