Timeline of Bremen
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bremen, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
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- 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 – Bremer Stadttheater (1792) (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
- 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
- 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 - Reichskolonialehrendenkmal (monument) unveiled.
- 1939
- Aumund, Blumenthal, Fähr, Farge, Grohn, Hammersbeck, Lobbendorf, Rekum, 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 Zoo Bremen[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.
- Fatih Mosque, Bremen 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 - 17 July: Carsten Sieling becomes mayor.
See also
References
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c Haydn 1910.
- ^ Georg Friedrich Kolb (1862). "Deutschland: Bremen". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.
{{cite book}}: Check|author=value (help); External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d Brockhaus 1896.
- ^ a b Lee 1999.
- ^ "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ 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 – via Hathi Trust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "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, vol. 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bremen". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Edward Augustus Domeier (1830), "Bremen", Descriptive Road-Book of Germany, London: Samuel Leigh
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bremen". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bremen", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bremen". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1877.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - 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.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Bremen", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bremen". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Bremen", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bremen", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Bremen", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Joseph Lins (1913). "Bremen". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 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. 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.
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in German
- "Stadt Bremen". Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. 1653. p. 60+.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Karl von Hegel (1891). "Bremen". Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot – via HathiTrust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Bremen". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Wilhelm von Bippen (1904), Geschichte der Stadt Bremen, Halle: C.E. Müller
- 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). Vol. 37. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1968.
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