Ensemble Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz

The building ensemble Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz in Bremen - Schwachhausen , district Barkhof, is a listed building .

The buildings were placed under monument protection in 1973 as a Bremen cultural monument.

history

Equestrian statue of Emperor Friedrich III.

In 1899, a first development plan for an urban expansion north of Bremen main train station near the Bürgerpark with new urban planning ideas was decided. Instead of a strictly right-angled street grid, curved streets, acute-angled intersections and a triangular square should create differentiated spatial impressions. From 1899 to 1913, residential buildings for the upper middle class were built in the Parkviertel by the architect and building contractor Wilhelm Blanke .

The largely two-story ensemble Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz of the residential buildings on Slevogtstrasse (48–60), Parkstrasse (107–108, 111A, 115–116) and Hermann-Böse-Strasse (10–11A, 15–33) was built from 1902 to 1905 according to plans by Blanke. The turn-of-the-century buildings are characterized by historical elements that are often found in and around parks. Playful turrets, decorative half-timbered cladding or small gables are often the design elements of the houses. Most of the buildings are gabled houses.

Like the typical Bremen house , the houses have a basement for utility rooms and servants' accommodation, which can also be reached via an outside staircase.

The first owners of the houses were merchants as well as the district judge Kulemann, Professor FJ Westphal, the banker Bernhard Loose and the doctor C. Pletzer.

House Parkstrasse 111 was built around 1935 and the Garage Parkstrasse 115 was built according to plans by Rudolf Jacobs in 1921 and rebuilt in 1988 according to plans by Westphal and Partners (BDA Prize 1990).

Previously, the place was after Emperor Friedrich III. named. The bronze equestrian statue of Friedrich was erected in 1905 by the Berlin sculptor Louis Tuaillon on the basis of a foundation by Franz Ernst Schütte and inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm II .

Today (2014) the houses are used for residential purposes and as offices for lawyers, commercial entrepreneurs and service providers: