Bremen City in Germany

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city was under the influence of Sweden first, then Hanover. Part of the territory was selected, but the enterprising authorities of Bremen each time managed to agree on the preservation of independence.

At the beginning of the 13th century, the city joined the Hanseatic League, which united free trading cities throughout Europe. In addition, large trade routes ran through Bremen, it grew and became rich, and the influence of merchants strengthened. As a result, in the 14th century, Bremen was freed from the power of the bishop and became a free city, which means a completely independent territorial and political unit. The statue of Roland, one of 25 in Europe and the largest of them, became a symbol of freedom and independence.

Bremen was founded by Charlemagne in 787 as a bishop's residence and with a very important goal - to convert local residents to Christianity, and then spread the religion to the Scandinavian lands. For many years, Bremen was more or less called the "Rome of the North", and missionaries from here spread throughout northern Europe.

Bremen is surrounded on all sides by Lower Saxony. To the west, it borders the urban district of Delmenhorst (75,672 inhabitants) and the Wesermarsch district (93,725 inhabitants), including the villages of Lemwerder, Berne and Elsfleet, to the north - with the Osterholz district (112,587 inhabitants), including the villages of Schwanevede, Ritterhude and Lilienthal. Dypholz (215,648 inhabitants), including the villages of Vaiche and Shtur. In addition, the city of Oldenburg (158,600 inhabitants) is located in the west, and the city of Bremerhaven (116,672 inhabitants) in the north. All these settlements form an urban agglomeration with a population of 1,511,198 people, of which about 115,000 go to work in Bremen every day, which is 48% of the entire Bremen employment market.

Bremen is located on both banks of the Weser River, approximately 60 km from the point where it flows into the North Sea. In the old city, the Middle Weser flows into the Lower Weser and further expands, forming the Bremen harbor. The region lying to the left of the Lower Weser is called Wesermarsh. On the right is the so-called "Nasses Dreieck" (German: Nasses Dreieck), a swampy plain between the mouths of the Elbe and Weser. The length of the city is 38 km in length and 16 km in width. The length of the ego borders is 136.5 km.