Vocational training center Bremen

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Vocational Training Center Bremen (BBZ), south side

The Vocational Training Center Bremen (BBZ) in Bremen - Mitte in the old town, Doventorscontrescarpe 172, is a building complex that used to house vocational schools. The buildings of the post-war period are under monument protection .

history

For the history of commercial training in Bremen before 1945 see the corresponding subchapter in the article Bremen school system .

By the Second World War , most classrooms had been destroyed. The vocational school system also had to be expanded considerably after 1945. In 1950, the American McCloy Fund , chaired by the US High Commissioner for Germany John McCloy, announced a competition for the new vocational school building across Germany, which Bremen won with a design by Hans Krajewski . The construction project in Bremen was then funded by the McCloy Fund with around two million Deutschmarks.

From 1952 to 1954, the four six-storey blocks A to D of the vocational training center in the Stephaniviertel were built as buildings from the post-war period, based on plans by Hans Krajewski from the Bremen Building Department . Oberschulrat Wilhelm Berger demanded: “The basic layout of the vocational school building should, as far as possible, always be carried out in such a way that the classroom, demonstration room and workshop form a unit together with the teaching material room, so that, on the one hand, versatile training and, on the other hand, constant interaction between theory and practice is always possible become."

The widely projecting flat roofs With single back floors , the visible skeleton of concrete, the yellow clinker infill and the cylindrical glass staircases shape the design of the four buildings. The originally planned further expansion of the vocational training center did not take place.

The school is located directly on the ramparts . The park-like open space design should create a spatial connection to the Waller Grün. However, due to the large, western traffic structures, this idea could not be realized.

In 1957, the so-called Agnes Heineken Memorial was erected on the school premises on the south side between Block A and B to commemorate the deserving Bremen pedagogue and women's rights activist Agnes Heineken (1872–1954) . It consists of a stone stele with a portrait head and was created by the Bremen sculptor Kurt Lettow .

The ceiling design of the entrance hall of Block A was done in 1954 by the artist Henry Garde.

use

From 1954 various vocational schools were housed in the vocational training center. Around 15,000 trainees have been accepted into the BBZ. After the various vocational schools in Bremen were housed decentrally at various school centers for upper secondary level as part of a school reform from the late 1970s, the building complex was used by government agencies after renovations. Among other things, the building regulations office in Block D was temporarily given its office.

Currently are in the buildings

  • in block A the adult school in Bremen since 1995, which was founded as an evening high school in 1947,
  • in blocks B and C the training and further education center Bremen (AFZ),
  • in block B the training company Bremen (ABiG),
  • in block C the administration school of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ,
  • in block C the Bremen University of Public Administration (HfÖV),
  • in the block? the state equalization office Bremen ,
  • in Block D the Office for Supply and Integration Bremen - AVIB for short .

  • South view of block A, adult school

  • Northeast view of Block A, adult school

  • Staircases on the south sides of Block C and D (in the background)

  • Agnes Heineken monument on the south side between Block A and B.

Monument protection

The building was placed under monument protection in 1973 as a Bremen cultural monument.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from the architecture guide Bremen . Ed. From b.zb.
  2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

literature

  • Klaus Tippel, Hans Krajewski: A vocational training center for Bremen . In: Nordwestdeutsche Bauzeitung, No. 4, 1952, p. 15/16
  • Wilhelm Berger: Today's school building for tomorrow . Göttingen-Berlin-Frankfurt 1960.
  • Architecture guide-Bremen. Edited by b.zb
  • Chamber of Architects Bremen, BDA Bremen and Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , Example 37. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-922516-56-4 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '3.8 "  N , 8 ° 47' 45.9"  E