Commercial building Am Wall 175–177
The commercial building Am Wall 175–177 is the former Stallmann and Harder textile department store in Bremen - Mitte , Am Wall and Ostertorswallstrasse 54–59. It was built in 1912.
The building was listed as a cultural monument in Bremen in 1992 .
history
The Hotel Siedenburg stood here on the wall. After that, the Stallmann und Harder office building was built from 1911 to 1912 according to plans by Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens and Friedrich Neumark . This architectural firm had planned the Heymann und Neumann department store as early as 1910/11. The four-storey, 14-axis building with a mansard roof was built in the style of the functional turn-of-the-century buildings with a somewhat colossal and baroque facade structure on the main front.
The basement is clearly set off and faced with ashlar. Ionic pilasters adorn the two-storey central building . The “Expert Commission” of the Senate originally planned only a three-story development towards the ramparts . However, the architects were able to enforce a stacked storey. Both sides are therefore three-story as a transition to the neighboring buildings. The building marked the rapidly progressing change from the street Am Wall to the commercial street.
The Stallmann and Harder clothing store was on the ground floor and the upper of the two basement floors . The Cafe Theater-Restaurant was on the left of the ground floor, as the city theater from 1843, which was destroyed until 1944, was directly opposite . Reliefs with bacchanalian themes can still be seen at entrance no. 177 today. The first floor housed representative club rooms such as billiards , reading rooms and various playrooms in the theater restaurant. There were office rooms on the 2nd floor and parts of the 3rd floor and a luxuriously furnished apartment on the 3rd floor.
From 1937 to 1989 the building housed the exhibition space of the United Workshops for Art and Crafts , a reform movement that was founded in Munich in 1898.
Today (2014) there are various service providers, an advertising agency and the Ullmann furniture store on the ground floor.
Literature, sources
- Katrin Gerhard and Carmen Krenz: The many faces of a house. The office, business and residential building at Am Wall 175–177 . In: Houses of the Big City. The architects Behrens and Neumark in Bremen 1899–1957 . Pp. 29-40, Bremen 1997.
- Nils Aschenbeck: 33 houses in Bremen - 33 Bremen stories . Pp. 45-46. Bremen 2004.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.9 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 43.3" E