Customs office Rotersand

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Customs office from the direction of Rickmersstrasse

The Rotersand customs office in Lehe (Bremerhaven) is at Franziusstrasse 1, at the end of Rickmersstrasse and Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse (the former Kaiserstrasse). It was the main entrance to the Kaiserhafen and the Nordhafen. Today goods traffic is routed via Speckenbüttel . The office is named after the Roter Sand lighthouse .

building

Imperial Eagle (1936)

The Rotersand customs office was built from 1935 to 1936 . The reason was the Olympic Games in Berlin, to which many foreign guests were expected by ship. “The gateway to the world”, as Bremerhaven was also called, was the last stop in Germany for millions of people before they emigrated to America.

The two-storey, representative, red-stone-faced building at the entrance to the customs area of ​​the former imperial ports had a large counter hall inside. A mural showed the skyline of Bremen . The more recent modern fixtures also retain the original overall impression.

The architecture is typical of the buildings in port cities of the 1920s and 1930s. The Rotersand customs office as a functional building shows a number of modern design features from the interwar period , which were also used in such buildings during the Nazi era . The semicircular formation of an oriel on the corner of Rickmersstrasse or the combination of the upper floor windows on Franziusstrasse by a horizontal structure of the facing brickwork is modern and contemporary . The building was provided with a conservative hipped roof that was customary at the time . At the entrance from the harbor side to the counter hall is the ceramic of an imperial eagle looking to the right with the year 1936 on the corner . In 2009 the customs office was placed under a preservation order. In 2010 the outer area of ​​customs clearance was rebuilt due to frequent traffic jams.

Customs connection

Bremerhaven, like Bremen, was spared customs duties as an independent state after it was founded in 1827. The Lower Weser was customs abroad. Even after the 1833 founded the German Customs Union of the German Bundestag , the cities of Hamburg and Bremen and Bremerhaven and formed Geestemünde a customs enclave . It was not until 1888 that these areas were connected to the customs inland of the empire by a Reich law . The four meter high wooden fence between Bremerhaven and Lehe disappeared. The Bremerhaven ports remained as a free port area for foreign customs with a monitored customs border and customs offices .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ onlinestreet.de
  2. ↑ according to Harry Gabcke as early as 1934
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '38.1 "  N , 8 ° 33' 56.4"  E