House Balleer

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Haus Balleer at the corner of Marktplatz / Grasmarkt 1859 (seen here behind the back of the Roland )

The house Balleer (also Balleersches house ) was a medieval town house in Bremen , which was built in the 15th century and demolished 1860th It stood on the south-east side of the Bremen market square (Am Markt No. 26) and was - next to the Speckhan House  - one of the most outstanding brick Gothic buildings in the city.

history

The Balleersche House was probably built around 1450. As a corner house between the market and the grass market , it was in one of the most prominent locations in Bremen and flanked the passage from the market to the cathedral with the town hall . At the market square it was directly adjacent to the also remarkable Pundsacksche Haus (right next to it).

It is named after the wealthy Balleer merchant family (also known as Baleer and Baller ), who provided several councilors and mayors of the city. There is evidence of Johannes Balleer, who acquired citizenship in Bremen in 1333 and became a member of the Bremen council , Arnd Balleer († 1418), who married Hille Hasbergen, a sister of Hinrich von Hasbergen , whose son Johann († 1441), a councilor and mayor Bernd Balleer (around 1475) and councilors Heinrich (Hinrich) Balleer († 1563) and Johann Balleer († 1635). †

The last Balleersche owner of the house died in 1702 while traveling in Amsterdam. Subsequently, the building had different owners, most recently the cloth dealer Philipp Rechten & Co. In 1860 the Balleersche Haus  - together with the entire block of houses around the former Wilhadikapelle  - was demolished to make room for the New Stock Exchange .

Shape of the house

The gabled house had three main floors and three attic floors, the front to the market was 9.50 meters wide and only 3.90 meters deep. The main floors were divided vertically by six window axes, the two middle ones being wider than the side ones. Here there were windows that ended with arches . In the gable area above there were five blind niches - in the middle three there were narrow windows with cloverleaf arches in further graded recesses . The roof was set off with a protruding tile band, which ended in the ridge with a gable attachment . At the end of the 17th century, the house was given two three-storey Utluchten , one on the side facing the market square and one on the side facing the grass market.

Recent finds

Cellar vault of the Balleer house during excavations in 2002

During excavations on the market square in 2002, the cellar of the former house with two barrel vaults and a herringbone brick floor from the 15th century was uncovered. One of the cellar walls bordered the foundations of an even older wall made of boulders, which probably did not belong to the one gate tower of the Domburg that Adam von Bremen had described, but to a neighboring wall tower, to which there was no reference in the text tradition.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 61 .
  2. ^ Konrad Elmshäuser, Hans-Christoph Hoffmann, Hans-Joachim Manske (eds.): The town hall and the Roland on the market square in Bremen . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2002, ISBN 978-3-86108-682-6 , pp. 126 .
  3. ^ A b Rudolf Stein: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1962, p. 302 .
  4. ^ A b Johann Martin Lappenberg: Historical sources of the archbishopric and the city of Bremen . J. G. Heyse, Bremen 1841, p. 175 .
  5. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1818, p. 18 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Rech (Ed.): Found Past - Archeology of the Middle Ages in Bremen (= Bremer Archäologische Blätter. Vol. 3) 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3233-6 , p. 49.

Web links

Commons : Marketplace of Bremen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 32.4 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 27"  E