Altes Pumpwerk

The Altes Pumpwerk (Old Pumping Station) in Bremen-Findorff is a decommissioned sewage pumping station that now serves as a museum of the technical and cultural history of wastewater disposal. Built in the reform architecture style with neo-Baroque elements, the complex was constructed between 1913 and 1915 and remained in operation until 1994, channeling two-thirds of the city's wastewater into the Weser River. The ensemble has been a protected historic monument since 1995. Today the historic machine hall is run by a nonprofit association that uses it as a museum and event venue. In addition to an exhibition on wastewater technology, you can tour an underground sewer channel and get a glimpse of the city's "underworld."