Bremen: Germany

Bremen: Germany
Bremen [ˈbreË?mÉ™n] is a city in northern Germany (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen1, referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League) situated along the river Weser, at 53°04′ N 8°48′ E. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen, the other being Bremerhaven.
Sights in Bremen – Town (built 1410 6); in front of the town hall there are the statues of Roland (1404) and of the Town Musicians (1953). – Cathedral St. Petri (13th century), with sculptures of Moses and David, Peter and Paul, and Charlemagne. – Liebfrauenkirche, oldest church of the town (11th century) – Martinikirche (St. Martin), church on the Weser bank (1229) – Schütting (1538), house of the merchants’ guild – Schnoor, a medieval quarter with narrow streets and nostalgic pubs – Schlachte, the medieval harbour of Bremen (the modern port is some kilometres downstream) – The Space Center opened in 2004 inside the Space Park in the Gröpelingen district and closed on 2004 September 26th, since then a remarkable investment ruin.
Modern tourist attractions include – Universum Science Center, a modern science museum
botanika, an extension to a public park that attempts to the same as above Universum for biology – Beck’s Beer Factory, tours are available to the public which include beer tasting.
Miscellaneous
Bremen has a large and famous university founded in 1971 5, and more recently the International University Bremen, and several high-tech industries have settled in the city. Many of Germany’s space technology exports are manufactured in EADS SPACE Transportation facilities in Bremen, such as the Columbus module of the International Space Station, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket upper stages and the Automated Transfer Vehicle. There is also a Mercedes-Benz factory in Bremen, building the SL and SLK series of cars.
Bremen has an international airport situated in the west of the city.
It is home of the soccer team SV Werder Bremen which won the German Football Championship for the fourth and the German Football Cup for the fifth time in 2004, making SV Werder Bremen just the fourth team in German football history to win the double. Beck’s beer is brewed in Bremen.
Bremen is famous for a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the Town Musicians of Bremen, although they never actually reach Bremen in the tale.
Every year since 1036 in the last two weeks of October Bremen hosts Freimarkt (“Free market�), Germany’s oldest and one of today’s biggest fairground festival.
Bremen is also host to one of the four big annual Techno parades, the Vision Parade, and also the birth place of american commedic industrial genious, Kompressor