(central park)|thumb • Many of the sights in Bremen are found in the
Altstadt (Old Town), an oval area surrounded by the
Weser River, on the southwest, and the , the former moats of the medieval city walls, on the northeast. The oldest part of the Altstadt is the southeast half, starting with the and ending at the
Schnoor quarter. • The (Market square) is dominated by the opulent façade of the
Town Hall of Bremen. The building was erected between 1405 and 1410 in
Gothic style, but the façade was built two centuries later (1609–12) in
Renaissance style. The Town Hall is the seat of the president of the
Senate of Bremen. Today, it hosts a restaurant in original decor with gigantic
wine barrels, the
Ratskeller in Bremen. In July 2004, along with the
Bremen Roland, the building was added to the list of
UNESCO World Heritage Sites. • Two statues stand to the west side of the Town Hall: one is the statue
Bremen Roland (1404) of the city's protector,
Roland, with his view against the
Cathedral and bearing Durendart, the "sword of justice" and a shield decorated with an
imperial eagle. The other near the entrance to the is
Gerhard Marcks'
bronze sculpture (1953) (
Town Musicians), which portrays the donkey, dog, cat and rooster of the
Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. • Other interesting buildings in the vicinity of the Marktplatz are the , a sixteenth-century Flemish-inspired guild hall,
Rathscafé,
Raths-Apotheke,
Haus der Stadtsparkasse and the , the former
weigh house (built in 1588), with an ornate Renaissance façade, and the nearby
Essighaus, once a fine Renaissance town house. The façades and houses surrounding the market square were the first buildings in Bremen to be restored after
World War II, by the citizens of Bremen themselves. • St Peter's
Cathedral (13th century), to the east of the Marktplatz, with sculptures of
Moses and
David,
Peter and
Paul and Charlemagne. The
Bismarck Monument is also outside the cathedral, which is the only monument in Germany to depict Otto von Bismarck in an equestrian format. • On Katherinenklosterhof to the northwest of the cathedral, a few remaining traces can be found of
St. Catherine's Monastery, Bremen dating back to the thirteenth century. • The (Our Lady's Church) is the oldest church of the town (11th century). Its crypt features several impressive murals from the fourteenth century. • Off the south side of the Markplatz, the was transformed in 1923–1931 by the coffee magnate
Ludwig Roselius, who commissioned local artists to convert the narrow street (in medieval times, the street of the barrel makers) into an inspired mixture of
Gothic and
Art Nouveau. It was considered "" (
degenerate art) by the Nazis. Today, the street is one of Bremen's most popular attractions, with the
Glockenspiel House at No. 4 with its
carillon of
Meissen porcelain bells. • At the end of Böttcherstraße, by the Weser bank, stands the (St Martin's Church), a Gothic brick church built in 1229, and rebuilt in 1960 after its destruction in World War II. • Tucked away between the Cathedral and the river is the , a small, well-preserved area of crooked lanes, fishermen's and shipper's houses from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, now occupied by cafés, artisan shops and
art galleries. The
Convent of Saint Birgitta () founded in 2002 is a small community of just seven nuns offering guest accommodation. •
Schlachte, the medieval
harbour of Bremen (the modern port is some kilometres downstream) is today a riverside boulevard with pubs and bars aligned on one side and the banks of Weser on the other. • The
Viertel district to the east of the old town combines rows of nineteenth-century Bremen houses () with museums and the theatres of
Theater Bremen along the city's cultural mile (). • Knoops Park which is one of the larger green spaces in the city that many locals love to visit especially when the weather is warmer. There is also an option to rent small
rowboats in the middle of the park. • The is the first purpose built mosque of the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Bremen. More contemporary
tourist attractions include: •
Universum Science Center, a
modern science museum • The
Rhododendron-Park Bremen, a major collection of
rhododendrons and
azaleas; also includes a
botanical garden •
Botanika, a nature museum within the Rhododendron-Park Bremen that attempts be to the same as the
Universum, but for biology •
Beck's Brewery, tours are available to the public which include
beer tasting • The
Kunsthalle Bremen, an art museum with paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth century, maintained by the citizens of Bremen • Focke Museum, museum of art and cultural history • The
Übersee Museum Bremen (
Overseas (World) Museum) is a
natural history and
ethnographic museum near by the
Central Station Bremen. • The , an art museum in
expressionist architecture from
Bernhard Hoetger with paintings from the twentieth century from
Paula Modersohn-Becker • The Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst ("Weserburg Modern Art Museum"), a modern art museum located in the middle of the Weser River
Structures •
Mediumwave transmitter Bremen •
Fallturm Bremen •
Bremen-Walle Telecommunication Tower The in Bremen-Sebaldsbrück was Germany's first school built to the
low-energy building standard. == Economy ==