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Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

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Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake

Name: Shipping Museum and Telegraph Brake
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Location: Brake, Wesermarsch, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Cooli 🆒77🦀

December 26, 2023

The Braker Telegraph is the city's landmark. The brick building, built in 1846, was built as an optical telegraph station to receive and transmit ship messages between Bremerhaven and Bremen.

Today the Telegraph is home to part of the “Oldenburg Lower Weser Maritime Museum”. The telegraph tower contains all sorts of exhibits such as ship models, ship portraits and nautical instruments. Seafaring folk art can also be seen here. These include paintings, ship models under glass and in bottles, as well as carvings and rope works. (Source: brake-touristinfo.de/schiffahrtsmuseum/)

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Cooli 🆒77🦀

December 26, 2023

Experience in the museum
You can find out more about Brake's development as a port location in the Telegraph. The past and present significance of the port location on the Lower Weser is discussed, particularly on the ground floor and fifth floor. Find out how the competition between the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic City of Bremen affected the region.
Telegraph, Kaje 8, 26919 Brake - ground floor etc.
Opening times are as follows:
April 1st - October 31st
Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m

November 1st - March 31st
Tuesday - Saturday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m

Sunday and public holidays: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m
Monday: rest day
(Source: wesermarsch-maritim.de/post/duckdalben)

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Cooli 🆒77🦀

December 26, 2023

Since 1960, the Telegraph has been the headquarters of the Oldenburg Lower Weser Shipping Museum. It was reopened in 2014 after extensive renovation and modernization of the permanent exhibition.

A building for communication

Telegraph around 1920
In July 1846, Johann Ludwig Schmidt, a merchant from Altona, put the telegraph in Brake into operation as a stopover on the Bremen-Bremerhaven optical telegraph line he operated. Messages could now be transmitted more quickly than had been possible by post, which took up to two and a half days on this route.
The now unique monument was planned by the Oldenburg building official Hofrat Ernst Friedrich Otto Lasius in 1845; the telegraph was built a year later, with minor changes, by the Oldenburg building inspector Hermann Maximilian Becker. In 1856 Brake was connected to the electromagnetic telegraphy network, where it served as a station until 1877.
From the beginning, the lower floors of the Telegraph housed the office locking room, the prison. Brake's first public clock was also installed on the tower, the second clockwork of which has been preserved to this day. (Source: wesermarsch-maritim.de/post/telegraph)

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1. Brake Old Town – To Admiral Brommy loop from Kirchhammelwarden

2. Weserlust Riverside Promenade – View of Unterfeuer Harriersand loop from Brake (Unterweser)

3. Oltmann Shipyard – Oltmann's Werft Shipyard Site loop from Brake (Unterweser)

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