The area of B'rgerweide. Bremen's webcams online

The web camera broadcasts online B'rgerweide, the area for events in Bremen such as fairs, concerts, Osterviz or Freimarkt. The ancient German town of Bremen is located about 60 km from the North Sea coast on the banks of the Weser River, a little west of the Jutland Peninsula.

The history of Bremen begins about 130 - 30 thousand. years ago, the area where Bremen is now is now inhabited by Neanderthals. After the last glaciation of the land was inhabited by collectors and hunters. Beginning in the fifth millennium BC, residents switched to agriculture. And by the middle of the first millennium AD, the tribes of the Germans had already settled here. By the end of the 3rd century AD, the German Saxon tribe, which had come from Golstein, was merging with the Haukov tribe living here. In 150 AD, a geographer from Alexandria, K. Ptolemy, mentioned some settlements in the lower weser River. 

In 772 -804, when the Saxon Wars were going on, The Franks King Charlemagne conquered the region, including him in the kingdom. In the middle of the 9th century, the region became part of the East Frank kingdom. At this time, a small settlement becomes a village and a hub of transportation on the Weser River. Archbishop Rimbert in 888 sought for the city of Bremen monetary and market charters. At the same time, Bremen coins are being minted. Otton I transfers land to the archbishop in 937. Since 965, there have been two annual fairs. 

In 1041 there was a fire in Bremen. The city was restored, and with this began the economic development of Bremen. This continued until 1072. The economic rise was based on the trade in fish, beer, grain and wood. Bremen traded with England, Norway, the Netherlands, and later with the cities of the Baltic Sea. The city becomes a center of commerce in northern Germany. 

In 1157, for the first time, a committee of citizens who represented the city was mentioned. 

In 1186, Frederick I Barbarossa granted the city the first civil law. Thus, the power in the city passed from the church to the emperor and the committee of citizens. In the later Middle Ages, Bremen endured many cases of internecine struggle of various groups in the city council, church and various uprisings. The city was a member of the Hanseatic Union for a total of 252 years. Bremen was repeatedly expelled from the union, then again part of its composition, and again excluded. In 1350, the plague epidemic reduced the population of the city from 15 to 7 thousand. Man. In the 15th century, Bremen was severely plagued by attacks and looting by Frisian robbers. Napoleon I in 1811 included the city in France. Then it is part of the German Union (1815), then - in the North German Union (1867), and in 1871 - in the established German Empire. 

In 1783, the Bremen began trading with the United States. In 1817, the first steamer was built. After 1848, the industry began to develop. 

Between 1943 and 1945. as a result of numerous bombings, the port of Bremen was almost 90% destroyed and 65 per cent inhabited by people. After the war, Bremen took over england," then became an American exclave. The city became a separate land in Germany in 1949. Bremen's story doesn't end there.