What to See in Bremerhaven - Top Sights and Attractions

Zoo in Bremerhaven, Germany. The Bremerhaven Zoo is located next to the river Weser and exhibits mainly species which live in the water or in northern environments; exceptions are, for instance, chimpanzees and White-headed marmosets.^[1]

Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. The German Emigration Center is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.

The museum opened on August 8, 2005.^[3]

Theatre in Bremerhaven, Germany. The Stadttheater Bremerhaven is a theatre in Bremerhaven, Germany. Founded in 1867, it serves three genres: opera and other musical theatre, spoken plays, and dance. A theatre built on the present site in 1911 was largely destroyed in World War II; a new house was built in 1952 which incorporated the surviving Jugendstil facade. The smaller Bürgerhaus Lehe, which served as a home before the rebuilding, is currently used as a venue for chamber pieces.^[4]

Observation deck in Bremerhaven, Germany. The Bremerhaven Radar Tower is a 106-metre reinforced concrete tower located in Bremerhaven, Germany. The radar tower, which was constructed between 1962 and 1965, accommodates numerous transmitting plants for maritime radio purposes, in addition to its radar equipment. A viewing platform is situated at the 60 metre level, and is accessible to the public.

Unlike other transmitting towers, the Bremerhaven facility belongs to the Bremerhaven Water and Shipping department and not Deutsche Telekom AG or a broadcasting corporation.^[5]

Museum, Specialty museum, Science museum, Children's museum

Museum in a restored WWII German U-boat. Wilhelm Bauer is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy, completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished, and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.^[6]

Lighthouse in Bremerhaven, Germany. The Bremerhaven Lighthouse, also known as the Simon Loschen Tower or Loschen Lighthouse, is the rear light of a pair of leading lights at the New Harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. It is the oldest operative lighthouse on the mainland along Germany's North Sea shore and is counted among the city's landmarks.^[7]

The Bremerhaven Art Museum associated with the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven of the Bremerhaven Art Association in the seaside city of Bremerhaven is an art museum in the district of Bremerhaven-Mitte at Karlsburg 1 near Theodor-Heuss-Platz.

Museum, History museum

The Ports of Bremen, Bremen Ports or Bremish Ports, in German "Bremische Häfen" consist of the commercial ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven. They are managed by bremenports GmbH & Co. KG, a company of private status in public property.

In 2011, in the Ports of Bremen more than 60 million tons of goods were transported, including 6 million containers and 2.1 million cars. Bremerhaven Harbour is the world's busiest port transporting cars.^[8]

The Havenwelten is a maritime-styled quarter in Bremerhaven. It includes the Atlantic Hotel Sail City, the Climate House® Bremerhaven 8° East, the shopping mall Mediterraneo, the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, the Bremerhaven Zoo and other maritime-themed places.^[9]

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche in Bremerhaven belongs to a congregation of Uniate churches consisting of Lutherans and Reformed. Belonging to the Bremen Evangelical Church from the beginning, it is still the only congregation of this regional church in Bremerhaven. The correct name of the "Great Church" is Vereinigte Protestantische Gemeinde zur Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche. Since 1927, Bremerhaven's main church, like the main shopping street, has been named after Mayor Johann Smidt.

The Bremerhaven water level indicator is located at the south end of the Weser dike in Mitte. He informed ship tours to the tide level of the Weser estuary. Like the Mayor Schmidt Memorial Church and the "Lange Heinrich" in the past, the water level indicator is Bremerhaven's landmark.

The Bürgermeister Abendroth is a German lightship commissioned in 1909 under the name Eider.