Bremen country house
The Bremer Landhaus was a building designed by the Bremen architect Heinz Stoffregen for the German Trade Show in Munich in 1922 , which represented the Hanseatic city at the show. The exhibition was intended to prove “that extensive industrial, craft and artistic work is being done in Germany that is able to meet the highest and highest demands” (official exhibition guide).
background
The Bremen art scene at the beginning of the 20th century, which included authorities such as Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Ludwig Roselius , Emil Högg , Hugo Wagner and Heinz Stoffregen, was considered conservative . For the 1922 trade show in Munich, the task was to design a pavilion that represented the conservative framework of Bremen's arts and crafts . The original plan was to “create a coherent whole with the help of Bremen's entire artistic community.” However, this attempt failed, and “the architect Stoffregen was asked to design the exterior without further ado” .
building
Stoffregen designed a U-shaped building complex in the style of a multi-sided courtyard in the Biedermeier style , with a thatched roof pulled far down. All windows and also the doors were provided with shutters , the ground floor windows reached from the floor almost to the roof. The gables of the wing buildings were structured by square half-timbering . The front of the courtyard was bounded by a low wall that was open in the middle. The design and layout of the rooms and the building, which was decorated with ornaments above the lintels and other artistic elements on the rear bay windows, made it clear that it was not intended to be used for agriculture, but rather to represent the country house of a wealthy citizen.
main building
The floor plan of the house assigned seven rooms to the main building: the entrance led to a vestibule with an open fireplace and an office room on the right . In addition, one could go straight ahead into the music room, from which one got to the left into the so-called gentleman's room and to the right into the dining room. A door each led from the master's room and from the vestibule to the ladies room; from the dining room one came into the breakfast room.
Left wing of the building
From the ladies' room one got into the bedroom , which closed off the living area in the left wing of the building . Next to the bedroom, but only accessible from the courtyard, was the “car room” (garage) and another room for cars. The left wing was closed on the gable side by an arcade .
Right wing of the building
The kitchen was connected to the breakfast room in the right wing of the building. The pantry inserted in the building, which protruded in the form of a bay window , created a narrow hallway on the courtyard side, from which one could get to the bedroom and living room of others. This wing was also closed on the gable side by an arcade (the so-called "boat arbor").
Interior decoration
The interior of the building was designed by Rudolf Alexander Schröder.
Emergence
The first drafts date from November 1921. Stoffregen initially planned to use a garage in each of the two side wings of the building, but deviated from this in the actual implementation. In addition, the guest rooms shown in Munich were originally intended for the service staff. Stoffregen referred to the loft , which was created by the inserted room in the right wing of the building, as "Bremen bay window".
The sculptor E. Tölken from Bremen took part in the construction and the exterior of the building, the paints came from the company Kapitän Schlüters Farben GmbH, the clinker paving was supplied by the United Oldenburger Klinker-Werke GmbH from Bockhorn , founded in 1908 (today: Bockhorner Klinker GmbH ), the door handles came from the company Ms. Kallmeyer from Bremen and the garden benches were made by the master carpenter Ms. Ibendahl.
The house prospectus, which contained a description of the house written by Robert Kain in the form of a fictitious letter, detailed the furnishings in the individual rooms and the manufacturers of the things on display. Accordingly, numerous companies that still exist today contributed to the equipment of the house, including a. the " Akt.-Ges. Norddeutsche Steingutfabrik Grohn near Vegesack ," the Bremen chocolate factory Hachez & Co. , the Bremen Rolandmühle AG and MH Wilkens & Sons AG . The yacht yard Abeking und Rasmussen from Lemwerder provided a sailing dinghy , a motor yacht , boats and a flagpole for the boat gazebos , and Hansa-Lloyd -Werke AG exhibited a limousine of the type 1 16 with 50 hp in the garage .
reception
In his judgment on the building, the reviewer Joseph Popp took the character of the “Bremer” as an aid: He was “highly conservative” (...) “Tough and self-confident, he clings to the rich legacy of his fathers and does not simply sacrifice it to the new . ” He also wrote that “ most of the Bremen country house was too reminiscent of the old days ” , “ that here and there had a somewhat aunty touch. ” He came to the conclusion that the house was “ basically the Lower Saxon farmhouse . "
Hermann Fitger said: "The Hanseatic city was excellently represented at the German Trade Show in Munich in 1922 by Stoffregen's Bremer Landhaus, the interior of which was designed by Rudolf Alexander Schröder."
“The external buildings also included the Bremen House, which the State of Bremen had built to demonstrate Bremen's craftsmanship (Fig. 24). It was a large, thatched mansion built with three wings around a spacious inner courtyard in an elegant style with all the associated ancillary rooms, designed by architect H. Stoffregen (Bremen), ” wrote the Bauwesen magazine in a collective edition published in 1923 that contained a report about the trade show.
State of preservation
The building was not preserved.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joseph Popp in: Die Kunst 1922 , p. 22.
- ^ A b Nils Aschenbeck: Heinz Stoffregen 1879–1929 - Architecture between modern and avant-garde. Vieweg, 1990, ISBN 3-528-08746-3 .
- ↑ a b : The Bremer Landhaus - German Trade Show Munich 1922, Hofbuchdruckerei HM Hauschild , Bremen, 1922
- ^ Hermann Fitger in: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Publisher H .M. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 480.
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen ; Published in the Prussian Ministry of Finance; 73rd year, issues 1 to 3; 1923