Vegesacker whale tail fin
The Vegesack whale tail fin is a monument in Bremen - Vegesack on the Weser promenade at Vegesack harbor . It was set up in 1995 and is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
monument
The monument on the Weser promenade in the Vegesack City Garden near Utkiek at Vegesack Harbor was made by the sculptor Uwe Häßler . The fluke's bronze cast protrudes from the gray, wavy granite pavement of the promenade.
Are of Häßler in Bremen nor the whale in the Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße .
Whaling and Vegesack
The memories of the whaling tradition in the whaling town of Vegesack are nurtured by this whale tail fin (also called “fluke”), the whale jaw , and the whale sculpture in Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße.
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
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 18.6 ″ E