Weserbahnhof
The Weserbahnhof was a freight yard for general cargo to the Bremen free port built from 1857 to 1859/60 .
The so-called Weserbahn extended the railway line completed in 1848 from Hanover to Bremen in the direction of the free port. It led from Bremen main station in an S-curve on today's street An der Weserbahn along to the Weserbahnhof. Later, further lines were connected in the direction of Oldenburg ( Bremen – Oldenburg railway line 1867) and within the port area. The station was taken over by the Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft in 1929 .
The Weserbahnhof was equipped with a 25-ton crane for heavy goods and six smaller cranes.
On February 1, 1856, the Zollvereinsniederlage - a branch of the German Customs Union outside the customs area - was opened at the Weserbahnhof location , which had existed until Bremen joined the German Customs Union in 1888.
In 1939 a new and more modern Weserbahnhof was built, the old, now 80 years old, Weserbahnhof lost its function. Both the building of the old and the new Weserbahnhof were destroyed in the Second World War.
In the course of the reconstruction in 1951 a new and modern Weserbahnhof was built. In 1965 it was partially electrified.
With the advent of container transports , in which the labor-intensive reloading of general cargo was no longer necessary, the importance of freight yard buildings quickly declined. In addition, from 1964 the Neustädter Hafen was built on the left side of the Weser and a lot of traffic was shifted there. In 1989 the general cargo was completely transferred there.
The city sold the station grounds in 1996 for around 818,000 euros to the property company Weserbahnhof GmbH, which intended to build a trade and service center on the property. This planning failed. The city bought the property back six years later at the original price, but had to pay 553,000 euros in interest and costs.
The outbuildings initially served the Kellogg’s company . Except for a few, the tracks of the former terminal station, around 100 meters wide and 250 meters long, were dismantled and the building was used as a warehouse.
Today the Weser Tower stands on the edge of the property, about 150 meters east of the former station building . The former edge of the harbor was redesigned into a promenade over a length of 250 meters, which closes the gap between Schlachte and Überseestadt for pedestrians and cyclists. A new berth for ferries and cruise ships is also to be set up on the promenade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d http://gauss.suub.uni-bremen.de/html/mm/bremen/z_1892w3.htm
- ↑ Technical development in the port of Bremen ( Memento from July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Legal Gazette of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1861, p. 1. ( digitized version )
- ↑ a b c Bremen secured trade with the Weserbahnhof , Weser Kurier , February 1, 2010
- ↑ City wants to buy back Weserbahnhof II at a high price Die Welt from August 15, 2002
- ↑ Senate Press Office : Quartier "takes shape - press release of April 28, 2008 Senator Nagel:" Bremen is becoming even more attractive "- press release of May 18, 2009
- ↑ http://www.hal-oever.de/Projekte-Hal_oever.pdf
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '57.8 " N , 8 ° 47' 3.4" E