Flethe
Flethe was a village on the Fleth Danube in the area of the Lower Weser .
In 1862 the village of Flethe was incorporated into the municipality of Blumenthal / Unterweser and thus on April 1, 1885 a district of the district town of the Blumenthal district . Today Flethe is part of the Blumenthal district in the Bremen district of the same name .
Danube
The Danube was a canal on the right bank of the Weser opposite the village of Motzen in the Stedinger Land . Starting from the Müllerloch in Blumenthal, it flowed around a river island called the Plate and returned to the Weser in the area of what is now the Rönnebecker Hafen , the recreational boat berth .
The Danube served as a river port and was also used by the ferryman Bernhard von Harten to bring passengers to the Weser steamers, as there was no jetty in Blumenthal in the 19th century.
The word Danube probably originated from dode Au .
Bahrsplate
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Bahrs Plate was a river island formed by the Weser and named after a resident of the village of Flethe. It was formerly overgrown with grass, reeds and cane and became increasingly boggy after the Weser correction . In 1903 the area was acquired by the city and the district administration in order to create a public park and a river bathing establishment. The bathing establishment was then not built because the place proved unsuitable for it due to the increasing ship and ferry traffic.
At the end of the 1920s, on the initiative of the KPD parliamentary group in the Blumenthal municipal council, with the help of emergency work , the area was laid out dry and a city garden.
At the beginning of 1942, Krupp's own Bremer Großwerft AG "Weser" (Deschimag) set up prisoner camps for Eastern workers on the Bahrsplate . From June 1943 at the latest, the western part was used as a camp for Soviet prisoners of war. On the camp grounds there were also accommodations for naval guards and French prisoners of war. From August 1944 until the end of the war there was also a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp on the Bahrsplate .
After the Second World War , the green area on the Bahrsplate was redesigned as a park, removing the remains of the camp. In memory of the Bahrsplate concentration camp , the “Roses for the Victims” memorial was built by citizens with international support. In 2009 vocational school students expanded the area to include the "Stone of Hope" they designed, which currently has the names of 130 perished concentration camp prisoners.
The Bahrsplate can be reached with the bus routes 90 to 92 of the Bremer Straßenbahn AG . The closest stops are Zum Donaufleet and Ferry Blumenthal. The Blumenthal pier of the Blumenthal – Motzen ferry is also in the immediate vicinity.
Web links
- Families from Flethe in the local family book Bremen and Vegesack
- Families from Flethe in the local family book Lesum and Bramstedt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karsten Ellebrecht: Soviet prisoners of war and "Eastern workers" on the Bahrsplate. On the history of two forced labor camps in Bremen-Blumenthal 1942 - 1945 . In: Staatsarchiv Bremen (Ed.): Bremisches Jahrbuch . tape 95 . Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-925729-78-2 , pp. 186-229 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 51.4 ″ E