How did a tiny settlement around a wooden church become the proud Hanseatic city of Bremen? How did the merchants of Bremen win the battle against the powerful archbishop in the Middle Ages? How did the Böttcherstraße come about and what kind of person was the poisoner Gesche Gottfried?
Get the answers to these and many other questions on a tour through Bremen's Old Town - with exciting stories told by real history experts.
You will get to know Bremen as a metropolis with a vibrant history and as a city in which a rebellious spirit has always been alive beneath the bourgeois surface - from the medieval uprisings to the citizens' initiatives of our time.
You will experience a targeted journey through time to selected episodes in Bremen's history at the places where these events took place.