tourism - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1973 - 40 Pfennig

The illustrations show excerpts of the cityscapes of Aachen and Saarbrücken and a look into the harbor of Bremen. Bremen today - Roland and Rathaus, city musicians and Schaffermahlzeit are one side of the Hanseatic city, the other taps open the key in their coat of arms: ships and ports, water and shipyards. One belongs to the other, cosmopolitan flair and bourgeois tranquility to the special charm of that romance that radiates the industrialization of traffic in the ports. Bremen is today one of the most important seaports and trading centers in the world. Every year, 13,000 ships from more than 70 nations display their flag in the two inseparable port groups Bremen / Bremerhaven. These ships connect Bremen with more than 1,000 ports around the world. The freight flow through Bremen's ports reaches around 25 million tonnes annually. A particularly high proportion of these, 13 million tonnes, is high-quality general cargo. The rapid involvement in the modern container, lash and roll-on / roll-off sea transport systems has earned Bremen a leading position among European ports. A new kind of harbor romance has become reality in the ports of Bremen. More than 1.5 billion DM has to be spent on financial resources in the last 27 years to ensure the competitiveness of these ports. Find 350,000 visitors annually: Bremen is worth a visit. Every fifth of them comes from abroad. A lot is going on: business in the harbors, in the offices, banks or stock exchanges, the cultural offer of theaters, museums, galleries, half dozen colleges, urban planning in the New Vahr and Blockdiek, Schnoor or Böttcherstrasse, or simply the pleasure on the Riesenrummel Freimarkt.