President Kennedy Square
| President Kennedy Square | |
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 Former American Consulate General |
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| Basic data | |
| city | Bremen |
| district | Bremen-center |
| Created | 19th century |
| Newly designed | 20th century |
| Hist. Names | None |
| Confluent streets | Contrescarpe , Bürgermeisterin-Mevissen-Weg (Bischofsnadel), Richtweg, Rembertistraße, Fedellisten , Imre-Nagy-Weg, Kohlhökerstraße |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
The President-Kennedy-Platz is a small square in Bremen in the Mitte district, Bahnhofsvorstadt district , named after the American President John F. Kennedy .
Surname
After 1963 the square bears the name of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (JFK) (1917–1963). During the Cold War he was President of the United States for only two years from 1961 to 1963 . The politician popular in Germany ( Democratic Party ) was murdered in Dallas in 1963. After the construction of the Berlin Wall, Kennedy's speech in front of Schöneberg Town Hall on June 26, 1963 in front of around 1.5 million people became famous. At the side of the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt (SPD), Kennedy ended with the closing words: " I am a Berliner ".
After Kennedy, other places in German-speaking countries were named in Augsburg, Berlin, Braunschweig, Dachau, Darmstadt, Essen , Gelsenkirchen and Kaiserslautern.
Streets in the square
The streets on the square were named as Contrescarpe , the street opposite ( contre ) the wall is called the Bishop's Needle ( acus episcopi ) after a passage as a bishop's gate from 1274 in the city wall for the bishop and the clergy: since 2014, the mayor Mevissen-Weg named after the politician (SPD) Annemarie Mevissen , the Richtweg from 1839 as the shortest direction from Kohlhökerstraße to Auf der Brake , Rembertistraße after Archbishop Rembert (830-888), Fedellisten after the waters of Widel (1159) Imre-Nagy-Weg after the Hungarian head of government Imre Nagy , who was executed in 1958 after the popular uprising in 1956 , and Kohlhökerstraße after the vegetable farmers who sold their goods there in small shops ("Hökerer").
history
When the Bremen city wall was built, the cathedral district had its own passage, which was first mentioned in 1274. With the expansion of the fortification system at the beginning of the 16th century with bastions and kinking ramparts, a path, the bishop's needle, led across the moat to the Contrescarpe and the bishop's needle bastion . In 1802/03 the walls were removed.
In 1838 the classicist, preserved guardhouse was built on the bishop's needle according to plans by Friedrich Moritz Stamm and in front of it a square-like area on the north side of the Bremen ramparts . In the 19th century, the people of Bremen had been building houses on the Contrescarpe since 1803 and the suburb of the station developed quickly after around 1870. The war damage during the Second World War was limited here.
The formative former American Consulate General has been at the site since 1954. The new building of the Bremen State Archives was added in 1968. In 1993 the urban development ideas competition for President-Kennedy-Platz took place. The current (2017) square was created through changes in the street layout.
Buildings at the square
- No. 1: four-tier former American Consulate General in Bremen from 1954 according to plans by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) ( Chicago ), today the headquarters of the BLG Logistics Group ; under monument protection since 1994.
- At the State Archives 1: The archive tower and the two-storey. The administration building of the Bremen State Archives from 1968 based on plans by Alfred Meister from the Bremen Building Department has been a listed building since 2008.
- Rembertistraße 1A: threefold. Office building with hipped roof from 1846 based on plans by Diedrich Christian Rutenberg ; under monument protection as well as 1-protected modern exhibition extension
- Contrescarpe 45: seven-tiered Office and commercial building
- Contrescarpe 46: four-tier Office building
- Directional path 4: six-storey. plastered residential, office and commercial building
- Bishop's needle: included Classicist guard house or gatehouse from 1838 based on plans by Friedrich Moritz Stamm ; under monument conservation
Rembertistr. 1A
Bishop's gate with gatehouse
Art objects
- Sculpture Romari made of steel from 1998 by the sculptor Robert Schad
- Sculpture caterpillar made of plexiglass, steel, foam and polyester as well as lighting fixtures made of acrylic glass from 1974 by Bernd Uiberall
- Bronze sculpture Agamemnon from 2009 by Waldemar Otto to honor the Bremen entrepreneur Egon H. Harms (1927–2006) in the courtyard of the BLG
- Der Rosselenker , a group of bronze sculptures by Louis Tuaillon , placed at the Bishop's Gate in 1902
- Occasion Dramatique , sculpture from 1960 made of COR-TEN steel by Berto Lardera
Caterpillar
Rosselenker
Occasion dramatique
swell
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ Elke Hoesmann: Take a look: caterpillar on President-Kennedy-Platz . In: Weser-Kurier from January 19, 2015
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 38 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 54" E