Vegesacker whale pine
The Vegesack whale pine is a memorial in Bremen - Vegesack at the Vegesack harbor . It was set up in 1987 and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
monument
The monument at Utkiek at Vegesack Harbor was made by the sculptor Christa Baumgärtel . The bronze -Abguss replaced on May 8, 1987, formerly stationed there original, weathered lower jaw of a blue whale of about 24 meters.
Baumgärtel still has the Kaisenbüste (1985), the memorial for Mudder Cordes (1987), the memorial man and woman (1992), the Countess Emma memorial (2009) and the Kaisen memorial (2012) by Baumgärtel in Bremen .
Whaling and Vegesack
The Norwegian shipowner Anders Years brought the first whale jaw back with him from his voyage, gave it to the city and it was set up in 1963 at Utkiek ( Low German for 'lookout'). The memories of the whaling tradition in the whaling town of Vegesack are nurtured by the renewed whale jaw , by the whale in Gerhard-Rohlfs-Strasse and the whale tail fin on the Weser promenade near the port entrance.
In the 17th century the port of Vegesack developed into a base for whaling in the Arctic . For this purpose, a Greenland company from Bremen was founded in 1653 . From 1830 the shipyard owner Johann Lange (1775–1844) built up his fleet of ships. In 1837 he applied for a license to operate a liquor factory and participated in whaling. In 1843 a public limited company was founded in Vegesack "... for the purpose of Greenland fishing ...". Whaling in the Arctic continued until 1872. The Petroleum as a new fuel made the Trangewinnung of whales unprofitable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vera Machon: Vegesack has his whale jaw back . In: Weser-Kurier (Ed.): The North German . Bremen May 9, 1987, p. I .
- ↑ k: art in public space bremen
- ↑ Maritime Mile: Utkiek - Farewell to the whalers . ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 24.8 ″ E