Main customs office Geestemünde

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Former main customs office in Geestemünde

The main customs office in Geestemünde was a customs office in Geestemünde .

history

When it was founded in 1847, Geestemünde was a customs foreign country. Belonging to the Kingdom of Prussia since 1866 , it lost the character of a free port in 1888 as a customs inland . The main customs office building built in 1861 next to the Geestemünder train station was initially responsible for handling the landed goods .

Prussian new building

At the swing bridge over the Geestemünde main canal , not far from the old location, the current building was erected in 1907/08 as the Royal Prussian Main Customs Office in Geestemünde . The ramp on the central wing and the customs yard in front (with two gates) still show the function of the facility today. Under changing names, the office served the customs administrations of the federal states and the German Empire as the headquarters for many customs offices in the Elbe-Weser triangle .

When Geestemünde came to the newly formed city of Bremerhaven in 1947, the main customs office became the Land Bremen authority, responsible for the city of Bremerhaven and the city of Bremen's overseas port area. Since 1950 - after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany - it belonged to the Federal Customs Administration . In the 1970s the office had 60 employees. It was the administrative head for two customs offices and two customs offices. He was responsible for the customs clearance of international mail and piece goods traffic from and to Bremerhaven. In 1979, about 400 million German marks were raised in import duties in his area of ​​responsibility .

architecture

The high roofs and the alternation of brick and stone are striking . Individual forms take up historicism . The stepped gable , the stair tower , the high pitched roofs , the windows and the main portal are reminiscent of Gothic and Renaissance styles . The renunciation of rich ornamentation, the lively roof landscape and the multiple structure give the building a picturesque overall effect. It is a listed building .

literature

  • Wilhelm Beneke: 125 years of the main customs office at the mouth of the Geeste 1854–1979. Chronicle of the main customs office in Bremerhaven. History of the main customs offices in Geestemünde, Wesermünde and Bremerhaven . Regional Finance Directorate Bremen 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Brönner , Klaus-Peter Kiedel: Main customs office in Geestemünde (Klußmann- / corner Kaistraße) , in: Lars U. Scholl (ed.): Bremerhaven - a harbor history guide . Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum / Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1980, pp. 106-108.
  2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 8 ″  E