Turnhalle

The Turnhalle is a sports hall in Bremen-Vegesack, in the Fähr-Lobbendorf area of the district. What you see is a single-storey building with a gabled roof and partial brickwork. The architecture shows the modern style of the interwar years and the influence of the labour movement.

Johann Meyer from Fähr designed the hall, and it went up between 1928 and 1929. The community of Aumund needed it: some ten thousand residents had only one other sports hall. The Bauhütte Vegesack und Umgebung, a crew of union members, carried out the construction. It stands near the central sports field, south of the Schillerschule, on Werftstraße then and Ludwig-Jahn-Straße today. The garden architect Christian Roselius reportedly planned the landscaping outside.

Bremen's monument laws have protected the building since 2013. It remains a vivid record of the workers' sports movement and of the enthusiasm for sport in the twenties. Despite a poor state of repair, its 1,103 square metres still served the Fährer Flur primary school and local clubs in 2018. In 2021 Bremen's building renovation programme set aside 3.2 million euros for an energy-efficient refurbishment of the hall.