Walter office building
The Walter office building is located in Bremen , Mitte district, Altstadt district, Am Wall 148 and Herdentorswallstraße 26. The house was built in 1915 according to plans by Joseph Ostwald . It has been a listed building in Bremen since 1994 .
history
The four-story, narrow, plastered residential and commercial building was built in 1915 for the merchant Walter Steinberg in a good business location on a deep plot of land in the style of the turn of the century. Downstairs were the shops, above them offices and on the 3rd floor and the top floor apartments, with the round bay window, flanked by sandstone cornucopia . Since the rear Herdentorswallstraße is significantly lower, the building here has five floors.
The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen wrote: "The facade design clearly shows the influence of the modern commercial building style, which has been in use since Alfred Messel's Berlin Wertheim facade and is characterized by the verticalism of closely staggered columns ... Ostwald effectively merged baroque forms and classicist borrowings."
Today (2018 ) there is a shop on the ground floor and offices and practices on the upper floors.
Walter Steinberg
Steinberg (1871–1942) was an independent master tailor. His business enabled him to acquire several properties.
He promoted the Worpswede art scene and acquired over 200 paintings by u. a. by Fritz Mackensen , Fritz Overbeck , Otto Modersohn and Paula Modersohn-Becker .
He lived with Elisabeth Hering in the house Am Wall 170 / Ostertorwallstraße in a luxuriously furnished multi-room apartment.
Before the boycott of Jewish businesses, Steinberg employed around 30 employees and tailors. From 1933 onwards, business declined. In 1938 he sold the business and the office building at Bischofsnadel 12 to the Funk und Horst company. In 1939 he sold the property at Am Wall 170 / Ostertorwallstraße 68a to Elisabeth Hering.
On November 9-10, 1938, Steinberg was arrested and spent several weeks in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was admitted to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 23, 1942 . He died there on August 19, 1942 (probably suicide).
A stumbling block reminds of him (Am Wall 170).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 42.2 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 34.2" E