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Continue on to the Westside, where you will see the Deutsche Bank building, which was built from red sandstone in 1891. If you wish, you can visit the interesting interior of this bank as well.
You will see the Bremen Bank building when you keep to your right after exiting the Deutsche Bank. Overall, there are numerous impressive buildings constructed of sandstone, brick or clinker, which have always been primarily used to house banks and insurance companies.
Today, the Domshof is often used to host public events, including the weekly farmers’ market and the 1st of May Announcement.
As you have probably noticed, the Bremen Dome with its two impressive 99 metre high towers is located at the Southern edge of the plaza. Walk toward the dome’s staircase, where you will probably encounter natives spitting on a Domshof brick. Please don’t think these people rude; you are at the scene of an especially gruesome memorial, the so-called spitting stone. It was inserted in the pavement of the Domshof in memory of a murderer by the name of Gesche Gottfried. This woman poisoned 15 people with arsenic between 1813 and 1828 and was publically executed in Bremen in 1831. To this day, some natives still express their contempt for this poisoner by spitting on the spitting stone.
Please proceed to the dome’s staircase, the impressive entrance to the St. Petri Dom.
You will see the Bremen Bank building when you keep to your right after exiting the Deutsche Bank. Overall, there are numerous impressive buildings constructed of sandstone, brick or clinker, which have always been primarily used to house banks and insurance companies.
Today, the Domshof is often used to host public events, including the weekly farmers’ market and the 1st of May Announcement.
As you have probably noticed, the Bremen Dome with its two impressive 99 metre high towers is located at the Southern edge of the plaza. Walk toward the dome’s staircase, where you will probably encounter natives spitting on a Domshof brick. Please don’t think these people rude; you are at the scene of an especially gruesome memorial, the so-called spitting stone. It was inserted in the pavement of the Domshof in memory of a murderer by the name of Gesche Gottfried. This woman poisoned 15 people with arsenic between 1813 and 1828 and was publically executed in Bremen in 1831. To this day, some natives still express their contempt for this poisoner by spitting on the spitting stone.
Please proceed to the dome’s staircase, the impressive entrance to the St. Petri Dom.