Bank for trade and commerce

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Office and department store, 2012

The building of the former bank for trade and commerce is located in Bremen , Mitte district , Langenstrasse 3 and 5 / corner of Hakenstrasse. It was built until 1912 according to plans by Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens and Friedrich Neumark and was converted into a department store in 2000/03. The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1973 .

history

The former three-storey building with a brick and sandstone facade and the preserved, side, historicizing portal was built in 1910/12 at the turn of the century for the bank for trade and commerce in Bremen. In 1921 the bank was renamed to Bankverein für Nordwestdeutschland and after 1945 with Bremer Kreditbank AG it became part of the Bremer Bankverein . The bank was established in 1872 from the Bremen advance payment association from 1863, built a new building in Langenstrasse 4 in 1882 and expanded in 1891 and 1900 before moving into this new building.

In 2000/03 a major renovation took place according to plans by Manfred Schomers and Rainer Schürmann to a six-storey department store and office building. a. for Peek & Cloppenburg . The department store forms a functional unit with the building Obernstrasse 2 to 12, the former Schröder-Bank and after 1931 Norddeutsche Creditbank AG ( see also the bank and department store Obernstrasse 2–12 ). Only parts of the facades of the two buildings were preserved.

The buildings at Haus Langenstrasse 11: Bookstore Storm , bank for trade and commerce, Haus Langenstrasse 16 , Bankhaus Martens and Weyhausen / Essighaus , city ​​scales with coat of arms, reliefs and fountains as well as the office building on the market form the listed ensemble on Langenstrasse (No. 2 to 16, 18, 25).

literature

  • Bremen and its buildings 1900–1951 , Bremen 1952.
  • Reconstruction of the bank for trade and commerce in Bremen . In: Die Bauwelt 3, p. 47, 1912
  • Rolf Kirsch: The Langenstrasse - relics of past splendor . In: Gotthilf Hempel (ed.): The town hall and its neighbors , Bremen 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 33.9 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 22.1"  E