Ensemble at the stone cross
The ensemble Beim Steinernen Kreuz is located in Bremen , Mitte district, Ostertor district , Beim Steinernen Kreuz 1 to 17. The ensemble was built around 1859 to 1870. The group of residential buildings has been a listed building in Bremen since 1973 .
The short street at the Steinernen Kreuz leads in an east-west direction from Bauernstraße to Kohlhökerstraße and touches Kreftstraße / Blumenstraße and Albrechtstraße / Wulwesstraße. It was named after the stone, Gothic Vasmer cross , which was erected as an atonement cross in 1435 on the site of the execution of Bremen's mayor Johann Vasmer .
history
At the beginning of the 19th century, only 50 houses were still mostly open-plan in front of the Ostertor; Craftsmen, laundresses and cigar makers lived here on the Punkendeich .
In 1849 areas of the Ostertor district were incorporated and the citizens were given full citizenship of Bremen. It was reinforced after the lifting of the gate . In the extension of the already built-up Kohlhökerstraße, the suburban streets Beim Steinernen Kreuz and Wulwesstraße were created. These old ways can be seen in the engraving by Matthäus Merian in 1641 .
The two-storey and mostly three-storey plastered, three-axle houses, designed in the style of historicism , are typical Bremen houses with gable roofs and often with a strongly developed frieze .
The three-story houses Kohlhökerstraße 75 and Vasmerstraße 1 as well as the two-story houses Wulwesstraße 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 also belong to the ensemble.
Master bricklayer Johann Bummerstedt designed and built from 1859 to 1861 the group of houses No. 8, 10, 12, 12A and 14 as well as Wulwesstrasse 8-10 and 11A.
The house type Bremer Haus , which occurs frequently in the district , was built in Bremen between the mid-19th century and the 1930s. The basement as a basement , the deep building shape and the side entrance are characteristic.
Today (2018) the houses are still used for residential purposes.
No. 1, around 1870
No. 2, around 1860
No. 4, around 1860
No. 6, around 1860
No. 7, around 1870
No. 9, around 1870
No. 12, around 1860
No. 12A / 14, around 1860
No. 15, around 1865
No. 16, around 1865
literature
- Johannes Cramer, Niels Gutschow: Historical development of the Bremen house . In: The Bremen House. History, program, competition , Bremen 1982.
- Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: The Bremen House . Bremen 1974.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the architecture of Bremen. Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1964.
- Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 26.3 " N , 8 ° 49 ′ 13.6" E