The tale of donkey, dog, cat, rooster, better known as the Bremen town musicians – published by the brothers Grimm 200 years ago. Today, a Bremen Tour without a visit to the bronze statue of the animals is unthinkable.
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Tour through Bremen
Some caress the bronze statue, the other touching legs and snout of a donkey rather volatile: people from all over the world gather every day on the sculpture of the Bremen town musicians, which is tucked away on the Western side of the city hall of Bremen. Front legs and muzzle of the donkey have long since been rubbed blank. To include to bring good luck.
The town hall together with the adjacent, magnificent merchants ‘ houses, the “parlor” of the city of Bremen. The Locals refer to the Ensemble around the market square. Less, the Roland Statue hidden as the town musicians: on the market. It symbolizes the freedom and rights of the old Hanseatic city. Town hall and Roland, together with the town musicians to the sights of Bremen’s most famous.
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Ten reasons to BremenLuck handle
The Bremen town musicians are the most popular ambassadors of the Hanseatic city on the Weser. Based on the eponymous fairy tale by the brothers Grimm the four ‘unloved’ animals leave their home and want to find their luck in Bremen. And good luck to all the donkeys on both front legs touch. As a bronze sculpture of a donkey, dog, cat and rooster are since 1953 on the marketplace.
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Ten reasons to BremenChief post
The Bremen Roland is holding the position on the marketplace since 1404. His model was a true knight and a follower of Karl the Great. It is, as long as the Roland stands, the city freely and independently. As the historic town hall and the Roland Statue is a UNESCO world heritage site. At your right side of the Schütting, seat of the chamber of Commerce.
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Ten reasons to BremenRecipe for success
In the Schütting, the house of the Bremen merchants, to be directed in almost 600 years, the fortunes of the economy. The traditional motto of the merchants has lost none of its luster: “Buten un binnen – Wagen un winnen“, which means: inside and Out – dare and win. In the era of the Hanseatic League trade and the shipping of Bremen have made rich.
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Ten reasons to BremenUnder full sail
The Weser river is Bremen’s waterway to the North sea. Takes you to the 60 kilometers to the North of Bremerhaven. On your Hans cogs the merchants cloths and iron goods transported to North-Eastern Europe and brought from there raw materials. 70 large and over 100 smaller cities joined in the middle ages, the Hanseatic League. Since 1358 Bremen is one of the most important of the Hanseatic cities of Germany.
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Ten reasons to BremenKey function
At the richly decorated town hall facade in the style of the Weser Renaissance architectural in 17. A century of countless figures and Reliefs in Sandstone to be created. There is also the Bremen key, which is later coat-of-arms to the scene in the city. Nowadays, when the neighboring city of Hamburg prides itself as the gateway to the world, the answers May be the Bremen, but we have the key.
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Ten reasons to BremenWomen before!
In the case of the traditional get meal 100 captains, 100 merchants and 100 guests sit together every year in the Upper hall. At the panel, which is constructed in the shape of Neptune’s Trident, were at the 471. Get meal on the 13. February 2015 for the first time, women as equal guests. The oldest male Bastion of the city of Bremen is conquered.
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Ten reasons to BremenWith all the waters washed
A shipwreck moved a Bremer teachers 150 years ago in such a way that he founded the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur rettung schiffbrüchiger DGzRS. Thanks to generous donations, the lifeboat crews today are available around the clock and in any weather ready to use. With a fleet of 60 sea rescue cruisers and rescue boats they bring quick help to the North sea and the Baltic sea.
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Ten reasons to BremenLeinen los!
In the overseas port at the mouth of the Weser in the North sea are handled in one of the largest container terminals in Europe per year 50 million tonnes of goods. Its Tradition in the passenger shipping Bremerhaven wants to tie up with the Columbus Cruise Center cruise ships. Like a giant sail in the Atlantic Hotel Sail City from the new Skyline protrudes.
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Ten reasons to BremenTo new Shores
Of farewell and departure, the German emigration center is told in Bremerhaven. Here went in the 19th century. and 20. Century, over seven million people on Board ships that took them to the New world. The life stories of your once ancestors emigrated mainly travelers from North and South America in large databases on the track.
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Ten reasons to BremenPrima Klima
Eye-catching in the new harbour area of Bremerhaven with the climate house. Its outer shell consists of over 4000 individual glass panes. Inside, visitors can expect a trip around the world along the 8. Longitude East, past glaciers, through desert Sands and tropical jungle to the Antarctic. What are the consequences of climate change for humans and nature, it is close to the action noticeably.
In the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm, the four animals to Bremen open, is no coincidence. Bremen was considered as a city of Hanseatic liberties, a place of longing, from which many emigrated, with great hope for a better life in the New world. We know that the four fairy-tale characters are never arrived in the Hanseatic city, because they have sold a gang of robbers from their house, stayed there, and their happiness found. Nevertheless, the people of Bremen are proud of the Quartet. The bronze sculpture next to the town hall was created by the sculptor Gerhard Marcks in 1953, first as a loan set up, then later, with donations and a loan bought.
The Bremen town musicians, greetings from a traffic light
Long donkey, dog, cat and rooster have become the unofficial symbol of the Hanseatic city, as Souvenirs, and post cards in all the souvenir shops of the city. They belong to the Bremen’s DNA, such as the Weser, Dom, beer, coffee and port.
Since the publication of the “Bremen town musicians” in the “children’s house” of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 3 are fairy-tale on. July, exactly 200 years have passed. The honors Bremen 2019 with a “town musicians summer” – with theatre, exhibitions and music. Will be opened in the Central week of the 3. July of the Bremer Philharmoniker on the Domshof. In addition to the city centre, with five stages for concerts, the Weser will be played on the meadows on Easter dike. In contrast to the terrible singing of the town musicians, who taught the robber the Fear, promises to be the week of harmonic sounds for every taste.
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