Access City Award 2020 Accesible Bremerhaven our best

Access City Award 2020 Accesible Bremerhaven our best examples of successful accessibility

Public areas: Inclusive design Shared Space: The ramp was not hidden at the edge as usual, but crosses the stepped free space as the main design element, conforming to DIN 18040. Street furniture and drainage elements were developed especially for the site and underline the special character of the quay facilities. New multifunctional poles replaced the old street lighting and ensure good illumination of the danger zones, as the lighting in particular must enable people with disabilities to participate.

Public areas: Inclusive design The harbour area is an exciting intermediate zone, at the same time city and landscape, building and open space, harbour and park. Since the "water edge" holds some dangers for the visually impaired, for example, the planners paid attention to an "inclusive" design that is accessible and readable for all. The immediate shore zone was zoned differently in terms of material and equipment. Sawed large stone pavement with smooth surfaces characterizes the main movement areas, while the rough surfaces of the used cobblestone pavement along the bank edges signal to the pedestrian "Attention, move here with caution".

Public areas: Inclusive design The historic cobblestones in the Havenwelten were sanded down to create a flat surface. The area is therefore easier to use for wheelchair users, people with rollators or prams and cyclists. Ramps provide barrier-free access to the dyke.

Public areas: Barrier free to the beach Level footpaths and sanded historic cobblestones facilitate the visit of the Tourist areas, the city center and the beach with the wheelchair, a pram or a walking frame. An elevator goes to the barrier-free viewing platform SAIL City on the Hotel’s 20 th floor.

Public services: transport and associated infrastructure In Bremerhaven, only low -floor buses have been used in public transport since 2005. Another special feature of the vehicles is the "kneeling function". The buses can be lowered on one side to facilitate boarding. Kneeling function: barrier -free access between curbside and bus

Public facilities and services: Sport offers Sport connects - especially inclusive! To this end, the municipal authorities of the city of Bremerhaven have launched the project Inclusion in Sport. Bremerhaven is one of ten model regions in Germany for inclusive sport within the framework of a call for tenders. In order to give an overview of the already existing inclusive sport offers, the offers were summarized in a brochure.

Integrative housing: Innovative living concept - The Spiral House Barrier-free access to the apartments and garden plots. Ramps with max. 6% longitudinal inclination and at intervals of 6. 0 m with intermediate platforms. Very cost-effective solution, as the ramps, in contrast to hightech lifts, are almost maintenance-free and therefore a building block for The constant network-like inevitable meeting of the modern but affordable living residents on the small "streets and paths" of the space. The first construction newly developed arcade system leads to an of its kind in Germany. overcoming of anonymity and insolation especially of elderly or handicapped people and enable them to live together in the city.

Public areas: barrier-free footbridge and Marinalift As a coastal and seafaring city, the harbour and shipping experience in particular accessible by everybody. With the mobile electric lift for people with handicaps, a safe and gentle transfer can be guaranteed for everybody. The lift system is mobile so that it can be used at different locations and can also be carried on the boat. In implementation, use from October / November 2019 in the New Harbour.

Hands-on-model at the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven Uwe Papert, City Councilor for People with Disabilities, presents one of the "hands-on" - models for visually disabled people in the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven. Uwe Papert and Lars Müller examine a “touch-model” to give orientation to the visually impaired at the main station in Bremerhaven.