Bürgermeister-Smidt-Denkmal

The museum car 7 (Nordwaggon, 1908) was set up in 1977 on the occasion of the city's anniversary on Theodor-Heuss-Platz as a café car.

Mayor Smidt is omnipresent in Bremerhaven. As then mayor, he also acted as a statesman, the city of Bremerhafen has this mayor much to owe. Through its future-oriented work at that time, today Bremerhaven is what it is, a world open city ...... The city of Bremerhaven shows this thanks in many places, where it has named streets, buildings and monuments after him. Which city in Germany already has a Mayor Memorial Church, here in Bremerhaven, is that ... On the central, former market place of old - Bremerhaven, the today's Theodor Heuss place, stands a large monument in honor of Mayor Smidt, who is to be named as a city-state founder. The then mayor was named Johannes Smidt, his lifetime - 1773-1857. In 1827, the then mayor, with the purchase of land, laid the nucleus of today's city-state. The Leipzig sculptor Werner Stein designed the concept for this special monument. It was inaugurated on September 12, 1888. The shopping street of Bremerhaven ends at the Theodor Heuss place, which may be called otherwise, mayor Smidt street. From the city theater leads the extended mayor Smidt street, with the name "Karlsburgger Straße, into a new future-oriented city area, the newly created" campus "of the college of Bremerhaven. Here, in the sense of the mayor Smidt, the future will be shaped ...

Do you not see every day that a mayor has his own monument? But since this man is the founder of Bremerhaven, the monument is of course justified. 👌

I think it's amazing that a mayor has a stature here. It arouses interest in me to learn more about Bremerhaven.