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Lehe, Bremerhaven — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Rathaus Lehe, the Dionysiuskirche and the Kino Aladin all stand in Lehe, a district of Bremerhaven covering sixteen square kilometres.
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Where to stay in Lehe
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Lehe is big enough to have sides. Sixteen square kilometres hold a folk museum at Speckenbüttel, a cinema in the Kino Aladin and a civic cluster around Rathaus Lehe, so the district offers more than one kind of night. Bremerhaven holds the rest. If you want streets with some history to them, search around the Dionysiuskirche and the Alte Privilegierte Apotheke Lehe rather than the museum side.
Few places to stay in Lehe — most visitors book in Bremerhaven nearby.
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Things to do in and around Bremerhaven
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Museums & Galleries
1- Volkskundliches Freilichtmuseum Speckenbüttel
Churches & Religious Sites
1- Dionysiuskirche Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Zollamt Rotersand Heritage
- Alte Privilegierte Apotheke Lehe Heritage
- Alt-Leher Schule Heritage
- Theodor-Storm-Schule Heritage
- Kran Rickmers Werft Heritage
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- Alte Feuerwache Lehe Heritage
- Bremerhaven local court building Heritage
- Drogerie Gustav Rogge Heritage
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About Lehe
What are the main landmarks in Lehe?
Twelve entries, one district. Civic Lehe shows in the Rathaus Lehe, the Bremerhaven local court building and the Alte Feuerwache Lehe, while schooling accounts for the Alt-Leher Schule and the Theodor-Storm-Schule. Trade left its own marks.
The Alte Privilegierte Apotheke Lehe and the Drogerie Gustav Rogge sit alongside the Kino Aladin, the Zollamt Rotersand and the Kran Rickmers Werft, with the Dionysiuskirche and the Volkskundliches Freilichtmuseum Speckenbüttel completing the list.
What is the history of Lehe?
Lehe kept its own Rathaus. That building, listed as Rathaus Lehe alongside the Alte Feuerwache Lehe and the Alt-Leher Schule, marks a district that held its own civic apparatus rather than borrowing Bremerhaven's. The name is older than any of it.
Lehe first appears as Lee in the Oldenburg counts' register of revenues of 1273/78, and an engraving of 1605 in the Dilich chronicle of Bremen shows the market town as Leha.
Where is Lehe?
Lehe covers sixteen square kilometres of Bremerhaven, wide enough for the Volkskundliches Freilichtmuseum Speckenbüttel and the Alte Feuerwache Lehe.
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What is the best area to stay in Lehe?
Rathaus Lehe: civic streets around the district's own town hall. Speckenbüttel: mornings at the open-air folk museum. Zollamt Rotersand: the old customs office and the Rickmers shipyard crane.
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Updated October 2026