Vinegar house

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Vinegar house around 1907
Utluchten and portal of the former vinegar house

The Essighaus (also Esich-Haus ) in Langenstrasse in Bremen was a magnificent gabled house in the style of the Weser Renaissance . In the Second World War it was destroyed down to the ground floor and partially reconstructed in the 1950s. The building has been a listed building since 1973.

history

The vinegar house was built in 1618 by an unknown master builder on behalf of the Esich merchant family as a narrow but magnificent patrician house in the immediate vicinity of the city ​​scales . Originally the house had five floors, a magnificent facade with sculptures made of Obernkirchen sandstone and a gable decorated with scrollwork . The following slogan could be read on the façade: "Has Neit Abgunst is absolutely wasted - what Got's bestowed remains untouched."

After the building had been in the hands of a merchant for many years, Conrad Büchner ran a brewery here from 1828 . His successor, Heinrich Rasch, set up a vinegar factory , which is why the house became known as the "Essighaus" from the 19th century. With the changing commercial use, the building visibly deteriorated and should be torn down. In 1893 the South Kensington Museum in London applied for the purchase in order to at least preserve the facade and rebuild it in England. The architect Albert Dunkel tried to restore it with funds from a Bremen foundation and for a short time became the owner of the building himself, but the money was insufficient to complete the work. In 1897 the Bremen wine trading company Reidemeister & Ulrichs stepped in and bought the vinegar house for 125,000 marks. Dunkel completed the renovation of the building by 1901, in whose rooms the Alt-Bremer-Haus wine bar opened, which became famous for its lavish interior design. The East Asian Association of Bremen was founded in this bar in 1901.

With the exception of the ground floor, the house was completely destroyed by the bombing of September 5, 1942 and October 6, 1944. During the reconstruction in 1956, only the Utluchten (the ground-level bay windows) and the portal were reconstructed, the upper floors were completely redesigned and the gable was provided with set pieces from the former Caesar's house from the cathedral courtyard.

The building has been used by a financial institution since 1972. Initially, the private bank Martens & Weyhausen resided here . It has been the headquarters of the Deutsche Factoring Bank since 1985 . In August 2018, the entrepreneur Christian Jacobs presented his plans for the renovation of the building complex, which includes the completion of the reconstruction of the historic Renaissance facade of the Essigshaus.

The buildings at Haus Langenstrasse 11: Bookstore Storm , bank for trade and commerce , Haus Langenstrasse 16 , Bankhaus Martens and Weyhausen / Essighaus, city ​​scales with coats of arms, reliefs and fountains as well as the office building on the market form the listed ensemble on Langenstrasse (No. 2 to 16, 18, 25).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ Karl Löbe in: Weinstadt Bremen , Verlag Heinrich Döll & Co., Bremen 1981, page 140
  3. ↑ http://www.historic.de/Bremen_im_Krieg/Bombenangriff/Bombenangriff1942.htm
  4. ↑ Weser-Kurier of January 15, 1996, page 5: "Still a foreign word for many - factoring bank has offered a modern financing instrument since 1971"
  5. ↑ Bremer Nachrichten of September 1, 2018, page 19.
  6. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Web links

Commons : Essighaus  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 18 ″  E