Huguenot migrants’ planned settlement / Planstadt für hugenottische Migranten
- 1699 founded by Landgrave Carl of Hesse as a planned settlement where the Diemel joins the Weser river; numerous buildings in a sober civic baroque style, featuring a harbour in the city center / An der Mündung der Diemel in die Weser durch Landgraf Carl zu Hessen gegründet als Planstadt im schlichten bürgerlichen Barock, mit einem Hafen in Stadtmitte
- The first inhabitants were Huguenots fleeing persecution (due to their protestant creed) in France / Die ersten Bewohner waren Hugenotten, die wegen ihres protestantischen Glaubens in Frankreich verfolgt wurden
- 1717 renamed Carlshafen / Umbenannt in Carlshafen
- 1730 The Huguenot pharmacist Jacques Gallan discovered salt springs / Entdeckung von Solequellen durch den hugenottischen Apotheker Jacques Gallan
- 1838 Building a first bathhouse; brine water used to treat asthma, rheumatism, sciatic pain, and bronchitis / Errichtung eines ersten Badehauses; Solewasser zur Behandlung von Asthma, Rheuma, Ischias und Bronchitis eingesetzt
- 1977 “Bad“ Karlshafen (spa status), www.bad-karlshafen.de/


In the surrounding mountainous area of Weserbergland, shared today by the federal states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, numerous buildings follow the Weser Renaissance style, a regional variant of Nordic Renaissance,
Well-known beyond Germany, the Fairy Tale Route connects locations which are associated with specific fairy tales; an example from the Weser area is the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Since 2005, the Grimm Brother‘s „Fairy Tales“ (1812) are recognized by UNESCO as elements of the World’s Documentary Heritage
Main train station Bremen: Map in Braille writing, from Nov. 2001