Havenwelten

Overview of the Havenwelten, photographed in 2013 from the Zoo by the Sea

View of the Havenwelten in July 2009

Willy-Brandt-Platz in Bremerhaven

The Havenwelten are a maritime district of the seaside city of Bremerhaven in the area of ​​the old and new harbor .

The spatial arrangement of the individual contents is partly congruent with that of the Ocean Park Bremerhaven planned but not implemented at the same location .

As a result of the change in port operations, the very downtown port and commercial areas at the two oldest and smallest port basins became increasingly unattractive for the port industry and the need to convert these areas arose . With the construction of the German Maritime Museum since 1969 on one side and the construction of Columbusstrasse in 1966 and the Columbus Center in 1975 on the other side of the Old Harbor, the basin of which was partially changed, this change began as early as the 1960s to 1970s. This was also the beginning of a touristic use of the area. This was later developed into the concept of the Ocean Park and was intended to give the structurally weak Bremerhaven a new pillar.

As part of the conversion, the realignment of the core city of Bremerhaven will be pushed further - between the shopping mile with Columbus Center and the classic main shopping street Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße on the one hand and the Weser dike on the other hand - with partly grown structures on land and extensive water areas of a classic German port city. Private and public donors are jointly spending several hundred million euros on this measure. In addition to some established attractions, there were other attractions.

The Havenwelten were awarded the National Prize for Integrated Urban Development and Building Culture by the Federal Ministry of Transport in 2009.

Components of the Havenwelten

The Havenwelten includes the following facilities and systems:

• The Weser promenade with the sea mark, the Weserstrandbad, the beach hall, the Great Lighthouse from 1854, the Seebäderkaje and the tug pier
• The zoo by the sea from 1928, redesigned in 2004
• The Willy-Brandt-Platz redesigned 2012
• The radar tower with viewing platform
• The German Maritime Museum from 1975, expanded in 2000
• The museum harbor / old harbor from 1830
• The New Harbor from 1852 with traditional ships, yacht storage facilities, swing bridge, old lock and Lloyd dock
• The German Emigration Center from 2005,
• The Atlantic Hotel Sail City from 2008 with a viewing platform
• The Conference Center Bremerhaven from 2008
• The Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8 ° Ost from 2009
• The Columbus Center from 1975 on the upper citizen with shopping center and high-rise apartment buildings
• Living on the dike
• The Lloyd Marina and the associated boarding house
• The technology park time Ports I, II and III
• The Mediterraneo shopping center on Havenplaza
• The Havenbrücke from Columbus Center to Havenplaza

Web links

Commons : Havenwelten Bremerhaven  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Havenwelten Official Website
• Information and photos about the Havenwelten at 22places

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 35 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 27"  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StadtbauenStadtleben.de: Results> Designing cities better. Accessed December 9, 2011.
2. ↑ 100 years - 100 impressions. Housing cooperative Bremerhaven, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2020 (German).