Timeline of Bremen

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bremen, Germany.

Prior to 19th century[]

787 CE - Catholic diocese of Bremen formed.^[1]
1223 – Archbishopric relocated to Bremen from Hamburg.
1230 – Church of Our Lady rebuilt (approximate date).
1243 – St. Ansgarius church built (approximate date).^[2]
1409 – Town Hall built.
1588 – Stadtwaage built.
1619 – Cloth-traders' guild hall built.^[2]
1630
- Lübeck-Hamburg-Bremen defensive alliance formed.^[3]
- Shipper's House built.
1675 – Bremen-Verden Campaign.
1790 - City directory published.^[4]
1792 – [de] (theatre) built.

19th century[]

1807 - Population: 36,041.
1810 – Bremen becomes part of the French Empire.^[5]
1823 – Art Society founded.
1827 – Bremerhaven (seaport) established.
1847 – Train station opens.
1849 – Kunsthalle (art museum) built.
1857 – Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company in business.
1862 - Population: 67,217.^[6]
1866 – Bremen joins the North German Confederation.^[5]
1867
- Exchange built.^[2]
- Population: 74,574.^[7]
1868 – 10 April: Premiere of Brahm's German Requiem.
1871 - Population: 82,969.^[7]
1872 – AG Weser in business.^[8]
1874 – Agricultural exhibition held.^[5]
1875
- Kaiserbrucke (bridge) built.^[2]
- Population: 102,499.^[7]
1876 – Horse tramway begins operating.
1878 – Post office built.^[2]
1885 - Population: 118,395.^[9]
1888
- Bremen joins German Customs Union.
- Bremen Hauptbahnhof (train station) built.^[2]
1890
- Bremer Straßenbahn active.
- Population: 124,955.^[7]
1892 – Electric tramway begins operating.
1893 – Bremer Vulkan shipbuilder in business.^[8]
1895 – Law courts built.^[2]
1900 – Population: 186,822; state 248,407.^[2]

20th century[]

1900-1945[]

1905 – Population: 214,953; state 263,673.^[2]
1906 - Production of decaffeinated Kaffee Hag coffee begins.^[10]
1911 – Rathscafé built.
1913
- Bremen Airport established.
- New Town Hall and Theater am Goetheplatz built.
- 20 June: Bremen school shooting.
1919 - Population: 257,923.^[11]
1923 – Bremer Flugzeugbau aircraft manufactory in business.
1925 – Fahrzeugwerke Borgward automobile manufactory in business.
1928 - Population: 302,949.
1932 - [de] (monument) unveiled.
1939
- Aumund, Blumenthal, Fähr, Farge, Grohn, Hammersbeck, Lobbendorf, [de; nds], Schönebeck, and Vegesack become part of city.^{[citation needed]}
- Population: 431,800.
1940 – Bombing of Bremen in World War II begins.
1945
- Bombing of Bremen in World War II ends.
- Wilhelm Kaisen becomes mayor.

1946-1990s[]

1956 - Population: 507,952.
1964 – Bremen-Arena opens.
1966
- 28 January: Airplane crash.
- Bürgerschaft (parliament) building and [de]^[12] open.
1983 – Bremer Shakespeare Company founded.
1986 – Bremen TV tower erected.
1990 - Population: 551,219.
1992 - Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen active.
1999
- 6 June: Bremen state election, 1999 held.
- [de] built.

21st century[]

2003 – 25 May: Bremen state election, 2003 held.
2005 – Jens Böhrnsen becomes mayor.^[13]
2007 – 13 May: Bremen state election, 2007 held.
2010 – Bremen S-Bahn begins operating.
2011 – 22 May: Bremen state election, 2011 held.
2012 – Population: 547,976.
2015 - 10 May: 2015 Bremen state election
2015 - 17 July: Carsten Sieling becomes mayor.
2019 - 26 May: 2019 Bremen state election
2019 - 15 August: Andreas Bovenschulte becomes mayor.

References[]

^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Britannica 1910.
^ Philippe Dollinger (1970). The German Hansa. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0742-8.
^ A. V. Williams (1913). Development and Growth of City Directories. Cincinnati, USA.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Haydn 1910.
^ [de] (1862). "Deutschland: Bremen". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Brockhaus 1896.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Lee 1999.
^ "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
^ "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.
^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
^ "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English[]

Thomas Nugent (1749), "Bremen", The Grand Tour, 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762572
David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bremen". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
Edward Augustus Domeier (1830), "Bremen", Descriptive Road-Book of Germany, London: Samuel Leigh, hdl:2027/hvd.hx167e
Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bremen". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
"Bremen", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873
"Bremen". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1877.
John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Bremen", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Bremen", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
"Bremen". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
"Bremen", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
"Bremen", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Bremen", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
Joseph Lins (1913). "Bremen". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
Wilson King (1914), Chronicles of Three Free Cities: Hamburg Bremen, Lübeck, London: Dent
Robert Lee (1999). "Urban Labor Markets, In-Migration, and Demographic Growth: Bremen, 1815–1914". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (3): 437–473. JSTOR 206909.
Robert Lee & Peter Marschalck (2002). "Port-city legacy: urban demographic change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910". In Richard Lawton & W. Robert Lee (eds.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.

in German[]

"Stadt Bremen". Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. 1653. p. 60+.
Karl von Hegel (1891). "Bremen". Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter (in German). 2. Leipzig: [de]. hdl:2027/wu.89094689700 – via HathiTrust.
"Bremen". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896. hdl:2027/njp.32101064064452.
Wilhelm von Bippen (1904), Geschichte der Stadt Bremen, Halle: C.E. Müller, OL 20530009M
P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Bremen". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
Bremen [Chronicles of the German Cities]. Die Chroniken der Deutschen Städte (in German). 37. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1968.

External links[]

Europeana. Items related to Bremen, various dates

Coordinates: 53°04′33″N 8°48′27″E / 53.075833°N 8.8075°E / 53.075833; 8.8075

[katolsk-1] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2015.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Britannica 1910.

[Dollinger1970-3] Philippe Dollinger (1970). The German Hansa. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0742-8.

[4] A. V. Williams (1913). Development and Growth of City Directories. Cincinnati, USA.

[FOOTNOTEHaydn1910-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Haydn 1910.

[Kolb1862-6] [de] (1862). "Deutschland: Bremen". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[FOOTNOTEBrockhaus1896-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Brockhaus 1896.

[FOOTNOTELee1999-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b Lee 1999.

[9] "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.

[Robertson2011-10] Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.

[11] "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.

[Kisling2000-12] Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.

[13] "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

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show v t Bremen
Buildings and structures	Aalto-Hochhaus Atlantis House Bremen Parliament Cotton Exchange Courthouse Ehemaliges Hauptpostamt (old post office) Deutsche Bank Essighaus Forum Domshof Glockenspiel House Heineken House House of the Seven Lazy Brothers Karstadt building Kontorhaus am Markt Landherrnamt New Town Hall Post Office Radisson Blu Hotel Raths-Apotheke Rathscafé Robinson Crusoe House Schlachte Great Crane Schütting (Chamber of Commerce) Shipper's House Spitzen Gebel Stadtsparkasse Building Suding & Soeken Kaufmannshaus Stadtwaage (Weigh house) Stock exchange City Hall Weser Tower
Precincts	Böttcherstraße Bremer Marktplatz Domsheide (square) Domshof (Cathedral Court) Langenstraße Schlachte Embankment Schnoor (district) Teerhof Das Viertel
History	List of mayors Timeline
Churches etc	Birgittenkloster (convent) Bremen Cathedral Church of Our Lady St. John's Church St. Martin's Church St Catherine's Monastery
Cultural institutions	Am Wall Windmill Altes Pumpwerk (Water treatment museum) Die Glocke (concert hall) Bremer Philharmoniker Forum am Wall (library) Gerhard Marcks Museum (sculpture) Kunsthalle Bremen (art gallery) Ludwig Roselius Museum Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (paintings) Theater Bremen Theater am Goetheplatz Übersee-Museum (Natural History) Universum Science Center Weserburg (modern art) Wilhelm Wagenfeld House (design exhibitions)
Science and education	University of Bremen Jacobs University Bremen
Transportation	Domsheide (trams and buses) Bremen Airport Bremen Hauptbahnhof

show v t Years in Germany (1870–present)
19th century	Pre-1870 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Timeline of Bremen

Contents

Prior to 19th century[]

19th century[]

20th century[]

1900-1945[]

1946-1990s[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

in English[]

in German[]

External links[]