Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven, the port of Bremen, on the east shore of the Weser estuary, nearly 10 miles from the open sea, and 39 NNW. of Bremen. It was founded by Bremen in 1827 on ground acquired from Hanover, and rapidly became a thriving place. A second dock was opened in 1866, a third in 1874; and in 1888 a great port, with docks, was undertaken at Nordenham, on the opposite bank. A dreary place, with its music-halls and beershops, Bremerhaven was the scene in 1875 of a dynamite outrage, the premature explosion of a mail steamship, by which 60 persons were killed. The Geeste separates it from Geestemünde (q.v.). Pop. (1850) 3500; (1890) 16,414.