Guided tour through Vegesack

Stadtfuehrung Bremen Vegesacker Museumshaven
Price per group:
1-25 persons: € 250.00
For guided tours in English, an additional fee of € 30.00 per group will be added.
VAT included
Price for larger groups on request – Duration: 2 hours (shorter on request)

Vegesack is a district characterized by shipbuilding. At the beginning of the 17th century, one of the first artificial river ports in Germany was built here. Later, wealthy Bremen merchants and citizens came to the north for a "summer retreat" and had magnificent villas built on the high shore. During a walk along the museum port, the "Stadtgarten" (park) and the Weserstrasse, you will discover one of Bremen's most maritime districts and learn, among other things, why the donkey of the Bremen town musicians is said to have received his bread of mercy here of all places...

Stadtfuehrung Bremen Fuehrung durch Vegesack Stadtgarten

Even today, many things in Vegesack are reminiscent of the shipbuilding tradition. The old warehouse, among other things, was built around 1814 by the shipyard founder Johann Lange. The museum port is home to interesting ships such as the sailing lugger BV2 VEGESACK, the FRANZIUS, a replica of a Weser barge or the experimental cruiser BREMEN (it is not guaranteed that these ships will be in the in the port at the time of the tour). At the Utkiek, a bronze cast of a whale jawbone reminds of the time of the Greenlanders, who set out from Vegesack for whaling. The beautiful park with its partly exotic trees goes back to the doctor and botanist Wilhelm Albrecht Roth and is today used as a recreation area. In Weserstrasse, captain's houses and magnificent merchants' villas bear witness to a time when shipping flourished in Vegesack. During the guided tour, you will also learn, among other things, what kind of food the sailors took with them on their long journeys and why the founding of the German Lifeboat association has its origins in Vegesack.

Price per group:
1-25 persons: € 250.00 
For guided tours in English, an additional fee of € 30.00 per group will be added.
VAT included
Price for larger groups on request

Dates and meeting place on request

For this city tour, it is essential that all participants are able to walk well, as we walk a lot and there are no seating options in between and we descend stairs.
If there are wheelchair users or people with rollators in the group or if you cannot walk that far, the route can be shortened and modified if necessary.

Fuehrung durch Vegesack Utkiek v2