Centaur pharmacy
The building of the Centauren pharmacy in Bremen - Mitte , Dobbenweg 11/12 near Dobben is a listed building .
history
The Centauren pharmacy on the corner of Dobbenweg and Besides the Schleifmühle was built in 1928, ten years after the First World War , according to plans by the architect Carl Heinrich Behrens-Nicolai for the pharmacists Löber and Hagemann. The three-storey commercial building with an additional mezzanine floor and the protruding round bay window was built in the style of North German brick expressionism. The style with its clinker texture, more strongly represented in Hamburg (including Chilehaus , Sprinkenhof ) or Berlin ( Borsigturm ), developed in the 1920 / 30s parallel to the New Objectivity of the Bauhaus . In Bremen, the buildings by Bernhard Hoetger ( Böttcherstraße ) belong to this style.
The horizontal basement of the Centauren pharmacy is characterized by its shop windows. The two upper floors emphasize the vertical through the narrow ribbon windows with the triangular pilaster strips and the round bay window. There is currently a guest house and apartments in the building. The pharmacy itself has been closed since 2017.
Originally, near the Centaurenbrunnen from 1891, on which the name of the pharmacy goes back. In 1958, the fountain was moved to the Neustadt wall system on Leibnizplatz .
Monument protection
The building was placed under monument protection in 1994 as a Bremen cultural monument.
literature
- Holle Weisfeld: Ostertor - stone gate 1860–1945 . Bremen 1998, p. 56 f.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 43.7 " N , 8 ° 49 ′ 28.9" E