Learn German in Bremen ( Germany )
Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. It is a port city, situated along the river Weser, about 50 km south from its outflow into the North Sea. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen. The official name is: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League. The Population of Bremen is: 545,983 (1st June 2005).
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Werder
Bremen is a German football club playing in Bremen, Bremen. The club
was founded in 1899 as FV Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high
school students who had won a prize of sports equipment to set them
on their way. They took their name from the seldom used regional German
word for "river island", describing the riverside field they
first played football in.
In 2004, they managed to take both the Bundesliga championship and the
German Cup – one of only four German sides to make the Double.
On August 5, 2006 Werder captured its first Ligapokal trophy with a 2:0
win over Bayern Munchen in the final match.
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 Stadtgraben,
the former moats of the medieval city walls, on the northeast. The
oldest part of the Altstadt is the southeast half, starting with the
Marktplatz and ending at the Schnoor district.
The Marktplatz (Market square) is dominated by the opulent façade
of the Town Hall. The building was erected between 1405 and 1410 in
Gothic style, but the façade was built two centuries later (1609-12),
in Renaissance style.
In front of the Town Hall stand two famous statues: one is the statue
(1404) of the city's protector, Roland, bearing the "sword of
justice" and a shield decorated with an imperial eagle. The other
is Gerhard Marcks's famous 1953 bronze sculpture Die Stadtmusikanten
(Town Musicians) which portrays the donkey, dog, cat, and rooster of
the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.
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