Columbus Center Bremerhaven
The Columbus Center Bremerhaven is a building complex on the east side of the Old Port . It separates Bremerhaven's pedestrian zone and city center from the harbor basin and has become a symbol of the city.
construction
In 1970/71, the ASAD Darmstadt group received first prize in an architectural competition. The Neue Heimat under Werner Lenz and the city commissioned the group with the planning. The Darmstadt and now Bremerhaven architect Peter Weber converted the competition result into a design. The Bremerhaven architects Weber and Gestering realized the building. Construction began on December 1, 1975; in the same year the old harbor was redesigned and the German Maritime Museum opened. The main section was inaugurated on April 27, 1978.
The Columbus Center consists of two parking levels, above which there is a shopping and service center with around 75 shops, restaurants, etc. on more than 30,000 m² on two additional floors. Among other things, Radio Bremen maintains a regional studio here. Three high-rise towers up to 88 meters high, which are supposed to be modeled on the chimneys of ships, rise above this base. They contain a total of 555 apartments. On the opposite side of the port basin are the German Maritime Museum, the Mediterraneo shopping center , which opened in 2008, and the Bremerhaven Climate House . A glass-covered pedestrian bridge connects this with the Columbus Center. There, the center was expanded in 2011 to include the Weserpassage section instead of the Weser Forum, which creates additional retail space on the Old Port side and provides access to the parking spaces next to the building and to the bus stop on Columbusstrasse below the center .
The shopping arcade bears the official street name Obere Bürger based on Bremerhaven's main shopping street, Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse , also known as Bürger for short .
Columbus statue
The Columbus statue stands in the middle between the two tallest buildings of the Columbus Center (position: 53 ° 32 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 39.7 ″ E ). It was a donation from the particulars Bernhard von Glan, who had become rich in America . He retired in his birthplace and had the statue made by the sculptor Ludwig Habich and erected in the park of Speckenbüttel in 1897 . However, it was melted down for the armaments industry during the First World War. In 1960 the original plaster model was found and in 1978 a bronze cast of it was finally placed at the current location.
literature
- Claudia Banck: North Sea Coast - Lower Saxony . 3. Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 44 .
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge u. a .: Bremerhaven in two centuries . III. Volume: 1948-1991. 2nd Edition. Northwest Germany Verlagsges., Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , pp. 144 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bremerhaven City Chronicle 1978. (PDF) Bremerhaven City Archives, September 6, 2016, p. 13 , accessed on September 21, 2017 (880 kB).
- ^ The Columbus monument in Bremerhaven
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 40.3 ″ E