"Hamburg is the gate to the world - but Bremen keeps the key."
This is how the vernacular says in regards of the city arms. The Key of Bremen in its roots is a heavens key. The well known attribute of apostle Petrus is derived from the words »I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven« (Matth. 16, Verse 19). Taken in purpose along with the city seal of 1366, the privy seal shows Petrus, the patron saint of the Bremen Cathedral, with a blazon to his feet showing a gothic key - the eldest proof for the city arms.
Bremen, since 1945 the "Free Hansecity of Bremen", consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven, is the smallest state of the Federal Republik of Germany. Not wihout pride, the citizens refer to their traditionally, repeatedly hostiled and threatened, independence for which the Key of Bremen stands as a symbol. Bremen - the key to the world.
On 23rd November 2003, we found as TandT (Tanja and Thorsten) the very first cache. Since then, Geocaching has become the key to a new world for us in which we found a lot of great caches and met hundreds of nice people.
