Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Bremen Roland is a stone statue of the city's protector Roland, erected in 1404 on the market square. It bears a sword called Durendart and a shield with an imperial eagle, and together with the Town Hall it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in July 2004.
Bremen joined the Hanseatic League in the 13th century, establishing commercial links across Northern Europe. The league's governing merchants and guilds sought to monopolise North Sea and Baltic Sea trade.
The Bremen Airbus site, the second-largest in Germany with more than 3,100 employees, equips wing units for all widebody Airbus aircraft and manufactures sheet metal parts. It also carries out structural assembly of landing flaps and the pre-final assembly of the A400M military transport aircraft fuselage section.
The Böttcherstraße is a 110-metre street transformed between 1923 and 1931 by coffee magnate Ludwig Roselius, who commissioned local artists to create a mix of Gothic and Art Nouveau architecture. The Nazis classified it as degenerate art; today it is one of Bremen's most visited attractions, known for the Glockenspiel House at number 4 with its Meissen porcelain bell carillon.
The Freimarkt is a fairground festival held in the last two weeks of October in Bremen every year since 1036, making it one of the world's oldest continuously celebrated festivals of its kind. It is also one of the largest such events in Germany today.
Kiss were told by the fire marshal before their concert on the 12th of March 1999 not to use fireworks during the show. They held off throughout the performance, then discharged all of their fireworks at once at the very end, resulting in a permanent ban from playing in Bremen.