At the Brill
| At the Brill | |
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 At the Brill with the headquarters of the Sparkasse Bremen |
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| Basic data | |
| city | Bremen |
| district | Bremen-center |
| Created | 13/14. Century |
| Newly designed | around 1900, after 1946, 1968 (Brilltunnel) |
| Confluent streets | Faulenstrasse , Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse , Hutfilterstrasse , Martinistrasse , Langenstrasse |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Bronze monument ( Jörg Immendorff , 2007) |
Am Brill is a central square in Bremen-Mitte . It is located south of Bremen's main train station on Bürgermeister-Smidt- Strasse and, together with Bahnhofsplatz and Domsheide, is one of the three most important transport hubs for local public transport in Bremen .
Connecting roads : Faulenstrasse , Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse , Hutfilterstrasse , Martinistrasse , Langenstrasse and indirectly the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke over the Weser connect to the square .
The Brill is surrounded by three to five-story commercial and office buildings, restaurants, the central headquarters of the Sparkasse Bremen and a nearby multi -storey car park.
history
Origins
From the Middle Ages to the 16th century, the Brill was a gate in the Bremen city wall . The Stephaniviertel was in the 13./14. Century not yet connected to the old town. The designation Brill then mean hole or opening (for example, abortion opening). The neighboring streets were called Am Brill and Hinterm Brill .
A small, still insignificant square was created in the 17th century when the Neue Weg was laid out, which forked to the east into Hutfilterstrasse and Hinter dem Brill, which continues into Molkenstrasse . When in 1874 a road was laid from the former Kaiserbrücke (today Mayor Smidt Bridge ) to the main train station, the importance of the now busy square increased significantly. With the expansion of the public transport system in Bremen, the square gained its central importance.
After 1900
After 1900 the glasses were redesigned. Several houses were demolished and the space increased. The Sparkasse Bremen built a new, historicizing building according to plans by the Berlin architect Wilhelm Martens . The inauguration took place in 1906 and even Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the representative new building in 1907 with its style elements from the Baroque , Renaissance and Art Nouveau styles . The ticket hall from 1904/1907 with conversion elements from 1936 according to plans by Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946) has been preserved and today connects the old building with the new hall building from 2001. The original copper-covered mansard roof has been simplified by several modifications except for the corner tower been.
After 1945
After the Second World War , the Martini breakthrough in the south created a southern traffic route that cut through the old town, separated the old town from the Weser, divided Langenstraße and dominantly connected the Am Brill to the Faulenstraße. The old Molkenstrasse merged into the new Martinistrasse.
In 1968 the Brill tunnel was built, which was a generous pedestrian underpass at the time and connected the adjoining streets and the tram stops. Initially, entrances with longer shop window fronts led to the adjacent shops and the savings bank and there were various kiosks in the tunnel area. The area was very busy in the 1970s / 80s. In 1999 the savings bank closed its access. The escalators were also shut down. In the 1990s and 2000s, the importance of the unrenovated and now uncomfortable Brill tunnel decreased so significantly that it was finally closed in 2010.
When the Obernstrasse / Hutfilterstrasse street was redesigned into a pedestrian zone in the 1970s, the Brill was at its western end. The existing building with the Wührmann bed house on the corner of Faulenstrasse and Am Brill was supplemented in the 1980s by a large brick-facing extension according to plans by architects planning group 5. The adjacent C&A department store relocated to the Hanseatenhof . The seven-storey Zurich insurance company on the corner of Martinistraße and Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße was built from 1983 to 1985 according to plans by the architects Gert Schulze and Partners.
According to plans by the architects Harm Haslob and Peter Hartlich , a new glass building was built in 2001 on the Brill in place of part of the main building of the Sparkasse.
The forecourt was renewed and in 2007 the bronze sculpture Affentor by the sculptor Jörg Immendorff was installed.
After the Defaka department store was demolished , the department store was built in 1964 according to plans by Max Säum at the corner of Hutfilterstraße / Am Brill, demolished in 2009 and until 2010 by Brillissimo designed by the architect Grüntuch Ernst (Berlin) as a connecting element from the pedestrian zone to the lazy quarter replaced for slaughter . The 30-meter-high building with a smooth, glass facade houses specialist shops and a restaurant with a three-story open space.
traffic
The Brill is a busy intersection of road traffic.
In local transport in Bremen , the tram lines 1 (Huchting - Mahndorf), 2 (Gröpelingen - Sebaldsbrück) and 3 (Gröpelingen - Weserwehr), the bus lines 25 (Weidedamm-Süd ↔ Osterholz), 26 (Überseestadt ↔ Huckelriede), 27 ( Weidedamm-Nord ↔ Huckelriede) and 63 (Hauptbahnhof ↔ Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ)) as
well as the regional bus lines 101, 102, 120, 121, 150, 226, 750. In the night network, the tram line N1, the bus line N9 and the regional lines N12 and N23 run .
building
A short street of the same name with the following buildings connects to the square:
South side
- No. 2-4: 6-sch. clinker corner building as office and commercial building Wührmann am Brill . The front part was built in 1886 during the founding period and renovated and rebuilt several times after 1945. The connection to Langenstrasse was built in the 1980s according to plans by Wilhelm Ude and planning group 5 (Bremen).
- No. 6: 5-sch. Restaurants and office buildings
- No. 8-16: 6-sch. Motel One Hotel ; previously 5-sch. C&A department store from 1956 based on plans by EA Gärtner (Essen) that later became the Leffers department store .
- No. 18: 6-gesch. Office building for HUK-Coburg insurance from the 1990s
- No. 24: 5-sch. Commercial and office building from the 1960s
- No. 26-28: 6-gesch. Corner house on Wenkenstrasse as a commercial and residential building from the 1970s
North side
- No. 1-3: 3-sch. historicizing corner house as a savings bank building from 1906 based on plans by Wilhelm Martens (1842–1910, Berlin)
- No. 5-9: 5-sch. Glass entrance hall and office building of the Sparkasse Bremen from 2001 according to plans by Harm Haslob and Peter Hartlich
- No. 11: 4-sch. Plastered office building of the Sparkasse from the early days, modernization around the 1980s
- No. 13: 4-sch. Business and office building from the 1960s, modernized
- No. 15-17: 5-sch. Commercial and office building from the 1970s
- No. 19: 5-gesch. Commercial and office building from the 1960s
- No. 21-23: 5-sch. Corner building on Hankenstrasse as a business and office building for the Sparkasse from the 1960s
See also
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Brandt: End of the Brill tunnel: concrete instead of disco. Authority announces final closure. In: Weser-Kurier from April 15, 2010
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 43.3 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 2.1" E