Ocean Park Bremerhaven
The Ocean Park Bremerhaven was originally known as Sister Park to Space Park Bremen was conceived. It was to become the first German adventure city center district , in which deep-sea research as well as the fauna and flora of the oceans were to be explained to visitors in an exciting way. However, the project was not carried out.
idea
The concept of Ocean Park Bremerhaven envisaged a new type of leisure-oriented conversion of a port industrial wasteland (60 hectares ) in the style of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town ( South Africa ), for example . The planning was done in close cooperation with the internationally active Hamburg consultancy Wenzel Consulting AG , the Köllmann AG ( Wiesbaden ) as project developer and the US architect Peter Chermayeff , the builder of the Oceanário de Lisboa and other ocean lakes in Baltimore , Boston and Chattanooga (all USA) as well as in Osaka ( Japan ), and his architecture and planning office International Design for the Environment Associates, Inc. (IDEA) in Boston ( Massachusetts ).
The Ocean Park Bremerhaven was not only intended to entertain visitors, but also to expand their knowledge of the flora and fauna of the world's oceans and marine research. As in Space Park, there should be a shopping mile with shops and new types of entertainment ("entertainment center") in Ocean Park next to the adventure park.
Bremerhaven hoped to expand its tourist activity with the Ocean Park, thereby lowering its high unemployment rate and using the funds raised by the Ocean Park to upgrade the city center.
Due to the planned construction of the Ocean Park, the new “Zoo by the Sea” was much smaller than originally planned. Many of the zoo's attractions (for example the aquariums) were to be integrated into the Ocean Park and have been lost without replacement since the zoo was rebuilt and the plans for the Ocean Park ended.
A Weser shuttle should run every half hour between Ocean Park and Space Park Bremen. The German Maritime Museum and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research should also be integrated into the Ocean Park .
The alternative
The original overall concept for the new leisure-oriented development of the 60-hectare inner-city area with an investment volume of around 600 million euros was never implemented due to political obstacles and growing resistance by the citizens' initiative "Ocean Park - no thanks", but tacitly with it Insolvency of Köllmann AG (2003) discontinued.
The city of Bremerhaven gradually implemented the somewhat smaller alternative of the Havenwelten with private investors and public funds until 2009 (investment volume approx. 500 million euros). The individual components were realized at the place originally intended for the Ocean Park (Atlantic Hotel Sail City , Shopping Mall Mediterraneo , Science Center Klimahaus , Lloyd Marina, Wohnen am Deich ).
Planned attractions then and now
- Blue planet, now: Klimahaus 8 ° East
- Shopping mall Old port city, now: Shopping mall Mediterraneo
- Oceanfront hotel, now: Atlantic Hotel Sail City
- Lloyd Marina and lock, identical part of the current Havenwelten (lloyd marina)
- Ocean Palace and Hotel Ozeana, now: Boardinghouse
- Emigration adventure world, now: German Emigration Center
- Multiplex cinema with IMAX , rainbow cafe, casino, Ocean Exploratorium and Tropicum will be replaced by alternative projects (different content)
- The joint venture with the Zoo am Meer , the German Maritime Museum and the Alfred Wegener Institute will continue
- Free planning areas for small commercial uses
- New: time Port (start-up center)
- Option area for extensions