Old Hafenstrasse

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old Hafenstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Old Hafenstrasse
Basic data
city Bremen
district Vegesack
Created in the 17th century
Cross streets Am Vegesacker Hafen, Rohrstrasse, To Vegesacker Fähre, Sagerstr., Wilmannsberg, Bürgermeister-Wittgenstein-Str.
use
User groups Cars, bikes and pedestrians
Road design two- to four-lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 300 meters
Vegesack 1860; in the middle the Havenstraße

The Alte Hafenstraße is a historical street in north-south direction in Bremer in the Vegesack district in the Unteres Vegesack quarter or Fährquartier . It leads from the Bürgermeister-Wittgenstein-Straße / Wilmannsberg downhill to Utkiek on the Weser and Vegesack harbor . The Have Street  - probably the oldest street of Vegesack - was about 1950 in Old Harbor Road renamed in memory of the first man-made harbor in Germany. There are notable and many listed buildings in the street.

The cross streets were u. a. named as Am Vegesacker Hafen , which has existed since 1623, Rohrstrasse after the city director and printer's owner Friedrich Rohr (1850–1913), Zur Vegesacker ferry, which leads over the Weser to Lemwerder , Sagerstrasse after the shipbuilders Jürgen Sager (1777–1854) and Peter Sager (1809–1869), Wilmannsberg after the first bailiff in Vegesack August Christian Wilmanns (1757–1839) and mayor-Wittgenstein-Strasse after the lawyer and mayor Werner Wittgenstein (1882–1965)

history

Emergence

From 1618 to 1623, the Vegesack Harbor, which belongs to Bremen, was the first artificial German harbor to be built at the confluence of the Schönebecker Aue with the Weser . Around the port, the village of Vegesack developed mainly to the west, which came to the Electorate of Hanover in 1741, but without the port, became Bremen again in 1803 and became a city in 1852. After 1773, the provincial government of the Electorate of Hanover in Stade developed a plan for the settlement of the heather areas between the village of Fähr and the port of Vegesack and slowly, from 1775, implemented it as Neu-Vegesack , with the Havenstrasse / Alte Hafenstrasse also being expanded. She was in the 18./19. and in the first half of the 20th century one of the most important streets in Vegesack with shops and restaurants.

Later development

After the Second World War, many older houses increasingly fell into disrepair. The traffic conditions in and around Vegesack were desolate. There was no relieving bypass road and the traffic leading through the Alte Hafenstrasse to the ferry pier on the Weser was disordered, which is why a relocation of the ferry pier to the ferry base was discussed. Finally, the ferry feeder was led through the middle of the oldest Vegesack core, for which many old buildings, some of which were from the 18th and 19th centuries, were also demolished on the Alte Hafenstrasse. After the area was demolished in the 1970s, the area around Alte Hafenstraße was marked by fallow land and deserted. The historical character of the old town of Vegesack was largely lost as a result of the renovation.

During the storm surge in 1962 , the area on Alte Hafenstrasse was completely flooded, which is why effective protective measures were taken for all subsequent construction measures.

In 1973/75 the core of Vegesack was finally declared a redevelopment area and various redevelopment concepts were developed. The Bremen Society was commissioned as the redevelopment agency, and the North Bremen Society for Housing  - at times property developers - and the Vegesack citizens' initiative accompanied the development. In November 1975 an urban planning plan for the redevelopment was decided. In 1978 the traffic could flow over the new road to the ferry and thus relieve the old harbor road.

In 1977 the property developer Nordbremische went bankrupt and the renovations were delayed. The architect Gert Schulze won an urban development competition for the ferry district in 1978 . In the period that followed, the remaining buildings were renovated and the fallow areas were built with three to five-story new buildings, often with red stone facades. The Bremische Gesellschaft was a frequent client.

building

lili rere
No. 21
No. 28
lili rere
No. 29: Loretta
No. 35A
lili rere
No. 30: Old packing house
No. 33
lili rere
No. 34 Rattenburg
No. 35: Havenhaus
lili rere
No. 36
No. 37
lili rere
No. 38
No. 44: Thiele-Speicher
lili rere
No. 43
No. 46/47
lili rere
No. 48-50
Ferry house

On the street there are mostly one- to three-story and a few four- to five-story buildings, which are mostly residential and commercial buildings. Many older houses from the 19th century were built in the classical style. In front of house No. 30 (KITO) there is a sandstone fountain column from 1755. Originally there were six of these wells in Vegesack. Another well- preserved column from the 18th century was moved to Fähr-Lobbendorf at Fröbelstrasse 52 around 1890.

Listed building

→ See also the list of cultural monuments in Vegesack

The following buildings are under the protection of historical monuments in Bremen :

  • As an ensemble, houses no.21, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 35A, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 as well as individual monuments
  • No. 21: Residential and commercial building, restaurant around 1890
  • No. 28: Residential and commercial building from 1908
  • No. 29: Loretta at the harbor ; 3-tier Office, residential and warehouse as well as a restaurant from 1831 in the style of late classicism and neo-renaissance , rebuilt in 1983 according to plans by Goldapp and Klumpp
  • No. 30: Kito house or old packing house ; 3-tier Residential and event house from before 1740 or around 1753; In the mid-1920s, the Kistentod (Kito) company resided there ; the Overbeck Museum and the KITO event center have been here since 1990 . On the street there is a fountain column from 1755 with the initials of the donors.
  • No. 33: New building from around 1980. Previously, a commercial building from around 1800 with the Sanders bakery was located here.
  • No. 34: Residential, commercial and packing house, restaurant from before 1847 or around 1860. The first post office in Vegesack was located here until around 1880. Before the reconstruction, in which only the original facade was preserved, the house was in serious disrepair and a ruin, since then also known as the Rattenburg .
  • No. 35 / Am Vegesacker Hafen 12: 2-storey. Havenhaus from 1648; Headquarters of the Bremen harbor master with an inn, and later with a post office and restaurant, in 1868 the harbor office was separated from the harbor house.
  • No. 35A: House from around 1870
  • No. 36 / corner of Rohrstraße: 4-gesch. cleaned house from around 1890
  • No. 37 / corner of Rohrstraße: Wehmann house from around 1800
  • No. 38: Hinrich Meyerdierk's sailmaker, formerly H. Wehmann around 1840, today a residential and commercial building
  • No. 43: House from around 1890, facade significantly changed by modernizing the windows
  • No. 44, 45: Thiele storage as 3-tier. Packing and warehouse from around 1800, today used by the Vegesack cultural association and the seat of the Vegesack Museumshaven
  • No. 46, 47: residential and commercial building from around 1800
  • No. 48, 49, 50: Residential house, locksmith's shop in Thun, formerly Humburg, from around 1820, the exterior has been greatly changed through modernization
  • At Vegesacker Hafen 14: Fährhaus restaurant from around 1800
  • At Vegesacker Hafen 10: Grauer Esel inn and restaurant from 1777, formerly the stable of the Havenhaus and one of the oldest surviving buildings in Vegesack. The tenant of the Havenhaus had the stable rebuilt and leased it as a harbor tavern. The restaurant was only given the name Grauer Esel in 1910.

More buildings

  • Corner to the Vegesacker ferry:
    • No. 20: 3-sch. House with red stone facade from around 1980 based on plans by Werner Glade
  • No. 22: Roxy cinema with 403 seats from 1955 to approx. 1974, not preserved
    • No. 53: 3-sch. Residential and commercial building with plastered facade from around 1980 based on plans by Eberhard Haering
    • No. 17/18: 3-ply Residential and commercial building with plastered facade from after 1975 based on plans by Gert Schulze
  • No. 22/26: 2-ply Residential and office buildings from around 1980 based on plans by Werner Pahlke
  • No. 27: House of the Havengalerie for art and comedy / Northern Germany's only gallery for comic art
  • No. 39/41: 3-layered House and restaurant with red stone facade from around 1980 based on plans by Willi Stadtlander
  • Corner to Sagersraße:
    • No. 58: 4-sch. Residential and commercial building with plastered facade from after 1980 according to plans by?

Monuments, plaques

Whale pine, Havenhaus
Gray donkey

See also

literature

  • Wendelin Seebacher among others: Vegesack . Ed .: Bremische Gesellschaft, NWD-Verlag, Bremerhaven 1990.
  • Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings - 1950 - 1979 . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .
  • Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Architecture of Bremen, Vol. II, Hauschild, Bremen 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendelin Seebacher (concept, design): Vegesack , p. 55. Ed .: Bremische Gesellschaft, Norddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremen 1990.

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 11 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 31 ″  E