Bremerhaven: Emigration Harbour, Climate Research, and Bremen's Exclave on the North Sea
Bremerhaven has a population around 114,000 and sits at the mouth of the Weser on the North Sea coast, 60 kilometres north of Bremen. The city is an exclave of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Bundesland), completely surrounded by Lower Saxony. The Deutsches Auswandererhaus (German Emigration Centre), a museum on the site where over seven million Europeans boarded ships to America, won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2007. The Klimahaus Bremerhaven traces the 8 degrees East longitude line around the world through climate zones.
Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany's leading polar science body. The container terminal handles around five million TEU annually, making it one of Europe's largest. The Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (Maritime Museum), designed by Hans Scharoun, documents German seafaring. The Fischereihafen (fishing harbour) district has restaurants and a direct-sale fish market. Bremerhaven has struggled economically since the decline of shipbuilding, with unemployment consistently higher than the national average. Adult companionship falls under Bremen's city-state regulations, distinct from the surrounding Lower Saxony.
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Bremerhaven has a population around 114,000 and sits at the mouth of the Weser on the North Sea coast, 60 kilometres north of Bremen. The city is an exclave of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Bundesland), completely surrounded by Lower Saxony. The Deutsches Auswandererhaus (German Emigration Centre), a museum on the site where over seven million Europeans boarded ships to America, won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2007. The Klimahaus Bremerhaven traces the 8 degrees East longitude line around the world through climate zones.
Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany's leading polar science body. The container terminal handles around five million TEU annually, making it one of Europe's largest. The Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (Maritime Museum), designed by Hans Scharoun, documents German seafaring. The Fischereihafen (fishing harbour) district has restaurants and a direct-sale fish market. Bremerhaven has struggled economically since the decline of shipbuilding, with unemployment consistently higher than the national average. Adult companionship falls under Bremen's city-state regulations, distinct from the surrounding Lower Saxony.
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