Deutsche Bank at the Domshof
The Deutsche Bank am Domshof in Bremen is located in a historic house in the Mitte district, Altstadt am Domshof No. 21a to 25. The Domshof-Passage leads on the ground floor and through the bank from the Domshof to the Katharinen-Passage and Sögestraße .
history
18th and 19th centuries
The Domshof is a central square in Bremen with the Bremen Cathedral next to the Bremen market square . In the 18th century the square also served as a meeting place and a. for the military. From 1803 the cathedral district came to Bremen in accordance with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In the 19th century there were mostly three and four-story residential and commercial buildings as well as restaurants and hotels here.
A three-and-a-half-story house with a hipped roof was previously located on the Deutsche Bank site, according to the elevation by Johann Radlef in 1769 , which was presumably built for Mayor Dr. Gerhard Heinrich Schumacher was built (No. 22). The Buchholz Plan of 1794, the group of buildings of today's Deutsche Bank to Schüsselkorb as Intendantursgüter the royal Kurhannoverschen possessions in Bremen (house number 21 to 24). After 1803 and 1810, respectively, houses 21a, 23 and 24 remained in the possession of the cathedral. In 1834 the four-storey Börsen-Halle inn was built at No. 22 as drawn by F. Meyer around 1850. Next to it were four-story residential and commercial buildings (No. 23, 24, 24a) and a three-story gabled house (No. 25).
The Society Museum (no. 21) was the first house in Bremen in 1817 gas lighting, 1875 came here late nineteenth two-storey new building. In 1871, Deutsche Bank opened its first branch in Bremen on the foreign trade center.
The first conversion of the Domshof to the banking district began in 1890: the Deutsche Bank built in 1891, and the Bremer Bank (now Commerzbank) was established in 1904 . This was followed by the Schifffahrtsbank in 1953, the Deutsche Hypothekenbank in 1954 and the Ibero-Amerika Bank in 1971 and the Bremer Landesbank in 1983 as well as the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft and the Commerzbank at the corner of the Schüsselkorb / Domshof .
The banking house from 1891
Several plots of land were combined for the construction of the bank (nos. 22-25). The in-house architect of Deutsche Bank in Berlin Wilhelm Martens also planned the building in Bremen and Friedrich Wilhelm Rauschenberg from Bremen was responsible for the construction. The three-story, very massive and representative building was opened in 1891. Over a basement in rustication are two storeys high. The Domhoff facade in the style of eclecticism (select, mix of styles) made of reddish sandstone is divided by a mighty classicist central projection with a triangular gable like a tympanum and a balcony loggia.
The transition to the steep pitched roof with eight vertical dormers took place with a higher cornice . On the right and left, the upper façade closed off with two turrets that had not been preserved, which emphasized the bulk of the building. The war-torn turrets, cornices and pitched roof were replaced with a fully glazed mezzanine floor after the Second World War . Inside is the high, glazed ticket hall on the ground floor.
From 1883 to around 1980 the horse or Bremen tram still drove past the bank on one and two tracks . The Domshof received its current design from 1990.
Cultivation
In 1965, according to plans by the architect Günter Albrecht, the modern, six-storey extension was built on the corner of Domshof (21a) / Schüsselkorb, where the ruins of the slender, two-storey museum by Herbert Anker stood. The new building with its 12 window axes facing the Domshof was redesigned to be more finely structured in the 1990s.
Domshof passage
The shopping arcade with 16 shops between the old building and the extension of the Deutsche Bank was built according to plans by the architects Haslob, Kruse and Partner in Bremen from 1997 to 1998 with a steel and glass roof. It leads on the ground floor of the extension and next to the old bank building from the Domshof to the Katharinen-Passage (formerly Katharinen-Kloster ) and to Sögestraße . Opposite, on the square, is the Domshof-Forum with the Bistro-Café Alex .
Monument protection and monuments
Since 1981, the main building of Deutsche Bank has been listed as a Bremen monument under Bremen monument protection in the list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte # 0321
The sculpture Our Planet has stood in front of the bank building as a globe fountain since 1996 . It was made in bronze by the sculptor Bernd Altenstein .
literature
- Wilhelm Lührs : The Domshof. History of a place in Bremen . 2nd unchanged edition. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1987, ISBN 3-920699-87-4 .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
- Deutsche Bank
- Historical pictures of Deutsche Bank
- Deutsche Bank ( No. 0321 ) in the database of the State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '36.4 " N , 8 ° 48' 32.9" E