Grohn

I. Grohn was a farmer and fishing village. According to a chronicle there were only three yards here around 1557. Since 1861 the officially used place name "Grohn" leads itself off from the german word "Groden": the washed ashore dyke before country overgrown with grass. The border after Vegesack formed the river Aue at > the old Deep<; 1778 were put a simple timber bridge after Aumund over the ford in proximity of the current gasworks. At the end 19. century, when the cordage and stone factory developed, Grohn developed to an industrial site with predominantly proletarian, to substantial parts of people from Poland.

II.
Grohn is connected with Groden, which means as much as "growth with again cultivated, green overgrown country", or in addition "new grass-covered sending calibration country" increased again. Therefore also Grohn has its name. 1557 was called there only a few houses "on the Grohden". In the Lesumer church books later "Grohden" stands at the beginning of "Gron". 1861 however write the superdirector Ruperti: "I change it in Grohn". This way of writing became official. Grohn originally belonged to the court Schoenebeck. Basic gentlemen von Grohn were since that 14. century the miners associations of Schoenebeck. From 1810 to 1813 it belonged to 1852 to Mairie Vegesack, came to the office Lesum, 1859 to the office Blumenthal and 1885 to the district Blumenthal. 1939 became Grohn a part of Bremen and belonged since 1951 to the local exchange Bremen Vegesack, urban district Bremen north. Already in 19. century possessed Grohn important industrial enterprises, among other things since 1805 Lange'sche' threw, from which 1893 largethrown of Bremen the volcano followed, the 1793 created of Bremen cordage factory F. Teklenborg & Co. as well as the north German stone factory. Grohn belonged to the Kirchspiel Lesum, since 1906 has it its own municipality and since 1907 its own church, since 1949 to the ev. Church luth. of Bremen. Local authorities association belongs. Kath. Church "to the holy family" was created 1903, belonged to the Dekanat Verden, Dioezoese Hildesheim.

III. The legend of the emergence of Grohn:
Afterwards seven men on a raft of the upper river Weser are to have come; the raft stranded to the Lesummuendung and was lost. Five men settled themselves thereupon at the bank of the river Lesum as a fischer on, two became at the farmer. With excavations on the today's area of Oeversberg even articles were found, which already referred to a settlement around 2300 bevore Christus. For Grohn there were several designations: On the Grohden, the Groen, Grohen, Groon and Gron. In the vernacular it was called "up'n Grohn". Grohn was mentioned for the first time 1557 in Lesumer church books.