Bremen station square
| Bahnhofsplatz | |
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 Bahnhofsplatz with train station, tram, Übersee-Museum and Hotel Columbus |
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| Basic data | |
| city | Bremen |
| district | Bremen-center |
| Created | 1847 |
| Newly designed | around 2000 |
| Confluent streets | At the trade museum, Gustav-Deetjen-Tunnel, An der Weide , Breitenweg, Bahnhofsstraße, Platz der Deutschen Einheit |
| Buildings | Central station , Übersee-Museum , Bremen Post Office 5 |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport |
The station square in Bremen is located in front of the main station in the suburb of the station in the Mitte district . The station square is bounded in the north by the main train station from 1889, in the west by the Übersee-Museum from 1896, to the south by hotels and commercial buildings as well as a larger vacant lot and to the east by the former post office Bremen 5 .
The square is divided into three areas: a green forecourt in front of the Übersee-Museum to the west, the main forecourt in the middle and the central tram transfer station to the east . The forecourt in front of the Übersee-Museum was named Platz der Deutschen Einheit in October 2010 . A piece of the Berlin Wall was therefore erected here as a memorial.
The street Beim Handelmuseum leads west from Bahnhofsplatz, to the south is the Breitenweg with its Hochstraße , to the south the Bahnhofstraße leads into the old town, to the south-east the Herdentorsteinweg touches with music clubs and discos, and to the east runs the street An der Weide . The Tivoli high-rise and the Siemens high-rise , both of which were built in the early 1960s, are visible to the south / east.
history
In 1847, the Hannoversche Bahnhof was built in the classicism style according to plans by building officer Mohr and Alexander Schröder . In front of it was a vast square with plazas, paths, trees, flower beds and bushes. This station was demolished in 1885, and a little to the east of it, the Centralbahnhof , also called the State Station, was built until 1889 , today's main station. The design of the square did not change significantly.
Shortly thereafter, until 1896, the City Museum for Natural, Ethnic and Commercial Studies , today's Übersee-Museum , was built in the west .
In 1877 the popular Breitenwegbad was opened by an association with a men's swimming pool, bathtubs, showers and medicinal baths. In 1889 a second swimming pool was added. This bathing establishment, which was badly damaged in 1944, was only operated temporarily from 1945, closed in 1952 after the opening of the Zentralbad on Richtweg (today the location of the Metropol Theater Bremen ) and demolished in the late 1950s.
At the beginning of the 20th century, several hotels and commercial buildings were gradually built on the square, all of which were destroyed in the war.
In 1913, the Lloyd station was built north of the railroad tracks as a special reception building for emigrants to Bremerhaven . The Lloyd tunnel led from the Lloyd station to the platforms. Later it served as a pedestrian tunnel from the station square to the Bürgerweide until around 2000 . Between the south exit of this tunnel and the Gustav-Deetjen-Tunnel there was the "Bad am Bahnhof" since the beginning of the 20th century. Its property - and possibly also parts of the building structure - has been used by the InterCityHotel since around 2000 .
From 1923 to 1926, Post Office 5 was built in the east. An underground air raid shelter was built during World War II. After the war damage and the demolition of the ruins, the open spaces increased.
In the early 2000s, the redesigned central tram and bus station and two taxi stands were built. There is now an extended bicycle station at the western station building (see Bremen cycle paths ). For special occasions such as the Bremer Freimarkt or major sporting events, there are stalls, tents and stages on the forecourt.
Since 2010, the green part of the square in front of the Übersee-Museum has been called the Platz der Deutschen Einheit .
There has been a larger vacant lot between the tram transfer station and Breitenweg since the Breitenwegbad swimming pool was demolished. Plans to develop this gap have been considered since the 1990/2000s and the property was sold to an investor in 2012. Max Dudler's design with two commercial and retail buildings, which emerged victorious from an architectural competition, was implemented by 2019. In 2015, construction of the seven-story City Gates commercial buildings began.
building
- Bremen Central Station by Hubert Stier , 1886–1891; look there
- Übersee-Museum as a municipal museum for natural, ethnic and commercial studies by Ludwig Beermann and Heinrich Flügel , 1891–1896 ( historicism ), expansion 1907–1911, reconstruction 1976–1979
- Post office 5 by Rudolf Jacobs , 1923–1926, object by Richard Kuoehl, conversion and extension 1985–1991, Bahnhofsplatz 20/21; the internet center is also located here
More buildings
- Star Inn Hotel Bremen Columbus , Bahnhofsplatz 5–7, built in 1952 as Hotel Columbus according to plans by Heribert Nadolle and Ernst Zinsser
- Hotel Hanseat , Bahnhofsplatz 8
- Office building of the WWK insurance group , Bahnhofsplatz 9-10
- Hotel zur Post ( Best Western ), Bahnhofsplatz 11
- Casino and DB service; in the former post and operations office, Bahnhofsplatz 14
- InterCityHotel , Bahnhofsplatz 17–18
- Two seven-story new commercial buildings with a lane between the buildings from 2019 according to plans by Max Dudler , Switzerland.
Former buildings
- * Kiefert's Wurstpavillon , planned by Eberhard Gildemeister in 1931 , dismantled in 1998, owned by the Focke Museum since 2016
Monuments
- Memorial against war and violence , fragment of the Berlin Wall, designed by Ben Wagin, erected on September 28, 2010 for the inauguration of Bremer Platz of German Unity .
- Memorial plaque from 1991 at the train station for the deportation of Jews to Minsk in 1941.
traffic
From the station square there are four train or bus platforms in public transport
- Tram lines 1, 1S, 1E, 4, 4S, 5, 6, 8 and 10;
- City bus routes 24, 25, 26, 27 and 63;
- Night lines N1, N3, N4, N5. N7, N9 and N10 as well as N12, N23, N61, N62, N70 and N71;
- Regional bus routes 101, 102, 120, 121, 150, 226. 630, 660, 670, 680, 730, 739, 740 and 750.
Various long-distance bus lines and other buses stop in the immediate vicinity.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Official start of construction on Bremen's Bahnhofsplatz ( memento from August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Radio Bremen online, August 26, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 56.7 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 45.5" E