Contrescarpe 21 and 22
The former Lürman villas Contrescarpe 21 and 22 are located in Bremen- Mitte on the Contrescarpe . They were built in 1822 and 1904 respectively.
In 1973 the buildings were listed as a Bremen cultural monument, as was the Contrescarpe residential complex .
history
The Bremen ramparts emerged from the Bremen fortifications built up to the 17th century . They were built between 1802 and 1811. Only then was it possible to build on the Am Wall street and the Contrescarpe. The Contrescarpe did not belong to the old town of Bremen and it was not until 1849 that the "gate lock" was lifted and the suburban citizens received the same citizenship as the old town citizens.
Contrescarpe 22/24
As early as 1822 the merchant and elderly man Theodor Gerhard Lürman (1790–1865) built house No. 22 (formerly No. 17) as a single-storey, classicist summer house based on plans by Jacob Ephraim Polzin . A portico with Doric columns gave it its representative touch. Until 1855 there was still a platform on the hipped roof for a panoramic view of the arable land in the north. The huge property, which at that time still extended to Kohlhökerstraße , looked like an estate . In order to maintain his citizenship, Lürman built his house at Am Wall 113 not far away in 1823 with his formal apartment and office rooms. In 1808, the senator and later mayor of Bremen, Johann Smidt, had built his “summer house” in the immediate vicinity, but it was destroyed in 1944 (today the location of the interior senator's office ).
Theodor Gerhard Lürman, also a member of the art association in Bremen , was a painting collector. Master bricklayer Lüder Rutenberg therefore built a gallery building next to the villa for Lürman in 1853, the garden house, which was badly destroyed in 1942 but could be used as a makeshift. From 1963 to 1965, the three-storey new building for the interior senator took place here and on the neighboring Smidtschen property. The two caryatids that once adorned the gallery building were placed in front of the main house.
The two-storey renovation of the villa was carried out in 1866 for the builder's son, Consul Johannes Theodor Lürman (1816–?) According to plans by Heinrich Müller by the Rutenberg construction company.
In 1904 the Contrescarpe 22 was built by the banker Johann Georg Wolde (1845–1911). Rudolf Alexander Schröder designed the interior. The central entrance hall was built behind the no longer existing entrance. In 1993, Schröder's painting was restored in the garden hall behind the portico. The marble and parquet floors, part of the doors, the wood paneling with part of the bookcases in the former library, the fireplace, and door and window handles are still from the Schröder furniture.
From 1911 the house changed hands several times. In 1923 it was taken over by the businessman Thomas Smidt, New York, in 1925 the wife of the director general of North German Lloyd Carl Stimming and in 1932 North German Lloyd for several tenants from the shipping company.
In 1939 the city of Bremen acquired the building. The house, which was only slightly damaged around 1942/44, was the confiscated headquarters of the US Army from May 1945 to 1947. From then until 1949 it was the seat of the Senator for Political Liberation and from 1950 to 1954 that of the Senator for Construction . The Senator for the Interior has been working in the building since 1954 .
Contrescarpe 21
On the right - next to No. 22 - the lawyer, businessman and consul Stephan August Lürman (1820–1903), son of Theodor Gerhard Lürman, built the two-storey villa on the corner of Contrescarpe and Meinkenstrasse according to plans by Heinrich Müller . The classical facade was a typical representative of the buildings on the Contrescarpe with its portico made of Ionic columns and a balcony above.
Later the import and export business Lohmann und Co was located here. Today (2014) the building is used by a law firm that is over 150 years old, where Federal President Karl Carstens as well as Senators and Mayors of Bremen were also partners.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ^ Andrea Less: Museum revisited . Ed .: Kurt Dröge, Detlef Hoffmann. transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1377-3 , p. 113-118 .
- ↑ Genealogy network
- ↑ Andrea Less: Office Contrescarpe 22/24 . In: The Senator for Inners and Sport
- ↑ Genealogy network ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Art of Architecture in Bremen I , pp. 476–482, Figs. 452–454. 1964.
- Chamber of Architects Bremen, BDA Bremen and Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , example 15. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-922516-56-4 .
- Nils Aschenbeck: 33 houses in Bremen - 33 Bremen stories , pp. 45–46. Bremen 2004.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 30.2 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 55.3" E