Geeren

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Geeren
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Geeren
1869: Am Geeren No. 15 to 18
Basic data
city Bremen
District Old town
Created Middle Ages around 1200
Cross streets Fangturm, Wenkenstrasse, Aschenburg, Grosse Fischerstr., Heinkenstrasse, Kalkstrasse, Grossenstrasse, Diepenau, Stephanikirchhof
Buildings House of the Chamber of Architects from 1630
use
User groups Cars, bikes, pedestrians
Road design Two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 250 meters

Geeren is a historic street in Bremen-Mitte . It runs parallel to Faulenstrasse and the Weser as an extension of Langenstrasse from the market square in a westerly direction to the Stephaniviertel and directly to the St. Stephani Church .

The cross streets were u. a. named as Fangturm (prisoner tower), a round tower from the 13th century on the west side of the oldest Bremen city wall , Wenkenstraße after a family who lived here, Aschenburg after a fort on the Weser mentioned in 1447 , Große Fischerstraße after the fishermen who lived here, Heinkenstraße after a former landowner, Kalkstraße 1816 after a municipal Kalkhof, Grossenstraße after the former largest street in the Stephaniviertel, Diepenau (formerly Deepenstrate ) after a trickle of water called deepe Naue and Stephanikirchhof after the St. Stephani church .

history

Surname

Geeren used to refer to wedge-shaped parcels. This applied to many locations in Bremen such as Horn , Neuenland , Rablinghausen , Seehausen , Mittelbüren , Oslebshausen and Walle . But the name is also used in other places in Germany.
On this street, a wedge-shaped square led to the naming on Große Straße.
Elsewhere, Geeren can also come from the old German word Gehren , which in wooden barrels was the ends of a barrel bottom rounded on one side.

development

The Stephanikirche was built from 1139 outside the Bremen city wall . At that time, a new Bremen district was growing around the church. The central Geeren led from the Stephanikirche to the former city gate Natel and thus to the end of Langenstrasse to the market square. It was not until 1307 that the city wall began to be expanded to include this part of the city (“stadtmure begundt umme sunte Steffens”). A network of streets developed in the simple fourth church district of Bremen. The existing city wall between the old town and Stephaniviertel, in the area of ​​the Fangturm, Hankenstraße to Jakobistraße, remained in place for security reasons. Not until 1651 was the wall and to the 1657/59 Natel demolished. The catch tower from 1590 at the Geeren / Langenstrasse transition remained as a structural element in the Kornhaus until 1944.

The tram in Langenstrasse ran from 1889 to 1916 via Heinkenstrasse - Geeren - Langenstrasse.

Due to the severe destruction in World War II , only a few buildings have been preserved. The Geeren now carries its name beyond the Diepenau to the Stephanikirche. The former streets Bönemannstraße (between Heinkenstraße and Diepenau), Aschenburg (formerly Burgstraße), and the Große and Kleine Fischerstraße leading to the Weser were given up.

building

Geeren 41: House of the Chamber of Architects from 1625
Geeren 24: Münchhausen office building
Radio Bremen, main entrance from Diepenau

On the Geeren there were mainly two- and sometimes up to four-story gabled houses. Only three buildings (No. 24, 29 and 41) date from the time before the Second World War. All post-war buildings are 5- to 6-storey residential or office buildings.

  • Geeren 1–5: 6-storey commercial building facing Faulenstrasse.
  • Geeren 2: The Zum Fangturm restaurant is located in the 6-storey residential building .
  • Geeren 3: This was the seat of the Lessing Workers' Education Association from 1897 to 1944 .
  • Geeren 6–8: The former building of the Bremer Volkszeitung and that of the SPD party office stood here. The headquarters of the GEWOBA , founded in 1926, was also here. A 5-storey residential building has stood here since the 1990s.
  • Geeren 7–9: 5/6 storey residential and office buildings
  • Geeren 10–12: This was a commercial building, the headquarters of Louis Delius & Co. from around 1919 to 1944 ; Bombed out in 1944. Today there is a 6-storey residential building here.
  • Geeren 11–13: Today there are 6-storey residential buildings here.
  • Geeren 14–20: There were five two-storey gabled houses on the northeast side between Burgstrasse and Heinkenstrasse. Today there is a 6-storey residential building here.
  • Geeren 15–23: Today there are 6-storey residential buildings here.
  • Geeren 24: Preserved 4-storey commercial building with the seat of the August Münchhausen coffee roastery
  • Geeren 25: Here stood a three-storey gabled house on the corner of Heinkenstrasse, which was rebuilt in the Baroque style around 1730 . In 1906, the Wilhelm Windolph pawn shop was here . Today there is a 6-storey residential building here.
  • Geeren 27: 5-storey Hotel Stadt Bremen on the corner of Heinkenstrasse
  • Geeren 26: Here stood a four-storey baroque gabled house with a portal from the Rococo .
  • Geeren 28: Here on the corner of Kalkstrasse was the two-storey gabled house of the merchant Isidor Goldschmidt. Today there is a 5-storey office building at No. 26–28.
  • Geeren 26–28: Office building with five floors
  • Geeren 29–31: Preserved 4-storey office building from the early days
  • Geeren 30: Here, on the corner of Kalkstraße (therefore formerly Kalkstraße 12), there was a simple two-storey gabled house that housed the sailmaker and flag factory Ruhe & Trelle .
  • Geeren 34: 5/6-storey residential building
  • Geeren 35: 5-storey office building
  • Geeren 37: 5-storey residential building
  • Geeren 38: This is where the large, four- story orthopedic institute of Dr. Carl Ludwig Leonhardt (practice: 1840–1852) with his mansard roofs. Today the buildings of Radio Bremen are here.
  • Geeren 39: The former three-storey Vorwerk's Hotel , which was previously called Drei Rosen from 1807 to 1816 , was called Kauffeld's Hotel from 1876 . Later, the headquarters of the cork import company Rudolf Hasse was here. It was built in the classical style.
  • Geeren 41/43: The two-storey business and packing house with a three-storey steep gable has been the house of the Chamber of Architects since 1985 . It dates from around 1625 and was built in the Weser Renaissance style. The sandstone portal is remarkable. Conversions took place in 1926 and 1984/85, the latter according to plans by Gert Schulze . The building is a historical monument.
  • Geeren 45 to Diepenau: The 5-storey building complex of Radio Bremen has stood here on both sides from the Geeren to the corner of Diepenau since 2007/09 . The architects of the three buildings were the architects Schulze-Schulze / Pampus, Böge / Lindner (Diepenau 10) and Harms & Partner
  • Geeren 47: The Women's Employment and Training Association (FEAV) had its headquarters here from 1893 to 1898 .
  • Geeren 47 or 48: The Stoevesandthaus was a four-story commercial building that was destroyed in 1944.
  • Geeren 51–53: 2-storey residential buildings in Rotsteinen
  • Geeren 66–68: 2- and 4-storey residential building in Rotsteinen

See also

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 49 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 48.3 ″  E