Bremen tobacco exchange
The Bremer Tobacco Exchange building in Bremen , Walle district, Überseestadt district , Speicherhof 1 / corner north of the Europahafen, was built in 1961/62 according to plans by Erik Schott during the reconstruction of the Bremen ports . This building has been a listed building in Bremen since 2013 .
history
The Bremen ports were badly damaged in the Second World War. After 1945 a quick reconstruction took place.
The conflict over Western New Guinea at the end of the 1950s resulted in the center of the Indonesian tobacco trade shifting from the Netherlands to Bremen. In 1959, Indonesia signed a treaty with Bremen. Three old Bremen raw tobacco trading companies (Hellmering, Köhne & Co., Gebrüder Kuhlenkampff, Frantz Kragh) founded the German-Indonesian Tobacco Trading Company (DITH) with a bank consortium and Indonesian partners .
For this reason, the Bremen Tobacco Exchange was set up in the free trade area in 1961 for tobacco auctions . It consists of the fully air-conditioned shed roof hall with slender columns in the central axis. The tobacco leaf bundles (mastiffs) are laid out on the long rows of wooden tables, the stalls , for assessment . There are rooms and boxes for brokers and buyers to process the tobacco into cigars here so that quality tests and taste assessments can be carried out through smoking.
In front of the hall is the two-storey office extension of the administration with an entrance porch as an arcade.
The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen found: "The tobacco exchange at the Speicherhof north of the Europahafen is an outstanding and clear document of the centuries-old tradition and the importance of Bremen as a tobacco city as well as a remarkably well-designed functional building by the well-known Bremen architect Erik Robert Schott."
In the past, 60,000 bales with a value of 250 million DM were auctioned on the stock exchange . 300 to 400 people took part in each auction. Today (2015) around a dozen dealers take part in the auctions, with only around 1500 bales of high-quality Sumatran tobacco being marketed here.
After the space required for the tobacco auctions has decreased, the buildings are now (2017) u. a. also used by the Bremer Bühnenhaus with the atelier Bremer Tabakbörse on 1340 m 2 of studio space.
literature
- Johannes Herwig-Lempp: Tobacco in Bremen - the beginnings .
- Christian Marzahn, Astrid Schneider (Ed.): Enjoyment and moderation. From wine slurpers, coffee indulgence and tobacco smokers in Bremen , Bremen 1995.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: Bremen Tobacco Exchange
- ^ Sigrid Schuer: Exclusive visit to the Bremen tobacco exchange . In: Weser-Kurier of September 17, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 19.3 " N , 8 ° 46 ′ 55.9" E