New Bremen is a village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,978 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village is against Minster to the south.

The village was founded by German immigrants in 1832 and is named after Bremen. It is home to the Bicycle Museum of America. New Bremen is plus the world headquarters of Crown Equipment Corporation.

The town was first a cultivation community started by Bavarians and Hanoverians, following a route from Bremen, Germany to America, through West Virginia and along the Ohio River to Cincinnati. Once Cincinnati was reached the founders formed a society called the City of Bremen Society, which drew stirring a charter accompanied by its 33 members. This charter authorized the buy of 80 acres of Ohio estate to build a town. Land within German Township was first received as a crop growing community in 1832, and by 1833 the plat of Bremen was recorded taking into account 102 shares of land to be unadulterated away by lottery.

A village was established, but addition had been stunted by nonattendance of accessible markets, and malaria. Transportation through swampy terrain was slow and costly compared to supplementary areas. This whatever would change with the attainment of the Miami and Erie Canal. There were consequently few in the town that subcontractors had to rely on “jiggers” or 2oz bottles of whiskey to attract workers. The Canal was soon ended and opened. When opened, the Canal brought extra markets to New Bremen, lowering transportation costs in view of that adding value to agricultural products that before the canal had Tiny cash value. Increased potential profitability moreover lowered the risks of other investments. The town became a buzzing place extremely quickly, with hundreds of freight boats moving frequently, along later dozens of passenger boats filled considering people making the trip from Cincinnati. The locks from the Canal have been restored, along subsequent to the supplement of a lock keeper’s home and can be seen in New Bremen’s downtown area.