Haven Höövt Vegesack
The Haven Höövt Vegesack is a city quarter with a shopping center on the former site of the Lürssen shipyard in Bremen - Vegesack , located between the Vegesack harbor and the Vegesack train station and the high-rise residential complex Grohner Düne .
history
Vegesack harbor
From 1618 to 1623, the Vegesack Harbor was built as the first artificial river port in Germany following a decision by the Bremen Council with financial support from the House of Seefahrt . The Havenhaus , the official seat of the Vegesack harbor master, was built between 1645 and 1648 . 1741, in the Second Stade Comparison , Vegesack came to the Electorate of Hanover ; However, the port and Havenhaus remained permanently in Bremen. Due to increasing shipments from the Weser, most of the merchant ships could no longer call at Vegesack. The port was soon only winter storage and repairs for the ships. In 1803 Vegesack came back to Bremen. Since 1835 a bridge has led across the harbor entrance to the Hafenhöft. In 1871 the ice led to the collapse of the bank fortification of the farm. The Hafenkante had built and the Lesum be straightened.
Shipyards at the Hafenhöft
The first shipyard was probably founded by Cord Cöper around 1639. The first seagoing ships were built on the Hafenhöft in 1771.
Shipbuilder Johann Lange founded his shipyard in 1805, which he relocated to this area in 1814. Sailing and fishing ships were built and in 1817 Germany's first steamship , Die Weser . The former villa of the shipbuilder Lange, which was demolished in the 1990s, was located on the farm.
In 1904 Friedrich Lürßen set up an equipment and repair shop at Vegesack Harbor . In 1924, the Lürssen shipyard completely relocated to Vegesack. From 1972 to 1980 the shipyard was completely relocated to Lemwerder , with the exception of the administration building that remained on the farm .
The listed Lange Speicher from before 1821 has been preserved. It stood empty since 1987 and was renovated from 1995 to 1999 for museum use as a spicarium with the addition of a steel and glass staircase construction on its east side.
Rebuilding
The vacated area at the historic port was to be built on with apartments, cultural and leisure facilities as well as a shopping center on the port promenade. A large cinema was also planned, but this was never realized.
The urban planning has been criticized on various occasions, above all because it would considerably weaken the center of Vegesack around Sedanplatz with the adjacent Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße and move it to the port. After a few changes to the plan, a development plan was decided and construction work started.
The training ship Germany - a Dreimasterbark - was from her berth at the Weser in Bremen-Mitte around 1995 to Vegesack hauled and renovated. As a maritime memorial and museum, it is located on the Lesum in front of the area.
The Haven Höövt shopping and experience center as the largest center of its kind in Bremen-Nord, planned by Bremen architect Christian Bockholt (BPG office) with around 70 specialist shops and dining facilities on a rental area of around 37,000 square meters and a multi-storey car park with around 1200 parking spaces, opened in 2003. Around the same time, Vegesack's central bus station between the Vegesack train station and Haven Höövt was completely rebuilt and expanded. In 2012 the shopping center went bankrupt. According to the development plan, the retail space was limited to 11,500 square meters.
Since 1999, the Haven Höövt has been connected to the lower Vegesack at Utkiek , the ferry pier and the Vegesack city garden with the Weser promenade via the entrance to the Vegesack harbor by a pedestrian bascule bridge with a span of 42 meters .
Current situation
The area around the harbor with Haven Höövt, Havenhaus, storerooms, packing houses, restaurants, fountain columns and bronze whale pine is now a central place in the Bremen-Vegesack district. They are there
- the "shopping and experience center" Haven Höövt ,
- the administration building of the Lürssen shipyard,
- the old harbor warehouse with the Vegesack story house and a yacht center,
- the harbor master's house from 2007 next to the harbor warehouse,
- the youth café Hafen Höft of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO).
However, vacancies in the shopping center increased, which led to bankruptcy. It is therefore to be torn down and replaced by a residential development with shops and infrastructure facilities based on the style of the opposite side of the harbor. To this end, an architecture competition was held in 2018.
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
- ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadtreport_artikel,-Tricksereien-beim-Bau-des-Haven-Hoeoevts-_arid,1216324.html
- ↑ Gabriela Keller: The winning design for the Haven Hööft is certain , in: www.weser-kurier.de, July 4, 2018.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 36.4 ″ E