House Hirschfeld

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House Hirschfeld

The Hirschfeld house is in Bremen - Mitte , Osterdeich No. 17 on Punkendeich or Deichstrasse. It was built in 1899.

It was placed under monument protection in 1992 as a Bremen cultural monument.

history

During the historicist era , Villa Hirschfeld was built in 1899 as a three-storey, plastered house with an eight-sided residential tower with a lantern as the spire, the base and the neo-baroque gable according to plans by the architects Eduard Gildemeister and Wilhelm Sunkel for the tobacco merchant Heinrich Gerhard Richard Hirschfeld. From 1903 Hirschfeld also owned the Knoop estate , west of Kiel-Holtenau . Inside there is a spacious staircase with a gallery. In 1903, Carl Eeg planned to expand the residential tower.

In 1907, Hirschfeld sold the house to Adalbert Oskar Korff, partner in the C. Melchers company , which was active in the East Asian trade. That is why the glazing of the skylight above the entrance was given the Chinese character, which reproduces the name “Korff” in the Chinese description Ko-U-Fu, as a symbol for “a thousandfold happiness”. Some rooms have now been designed according to the designs of Rudolf Alexander Schröder .

In 1943 the cotton company Albrecht, Müller-Pearse acquired the building for office use. In 1945 the house was requisitioned by the US occupation and made available to the Israelite Community of Bremen as a synagogue and community center.

In 1952 the city of Bremen purchased the house. In 1953 the Bremen Music School moved in, and the future mayor Henning Scherf had piano lessons there for eight years. From 1993 it was the seat of the Higher Administrative Court for about ten years . In 2004 it was for sale.

Today (2018) it is a commercial building for various service providers.

literature

  • Chamber of Architects Bremen, BDA Bremen and Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , Example 40. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-922516-56-4 .
  • Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992, p. 45.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ^ A b Elke Gundel: "Palais Pottschmidt" for sale, Weser-Kurier from August 1, 2004, p. 9, online only for subscribers
  3. ^ An old house, brand new: "Palais Pottschmidt", Weser-Kurier of October 30, 1993, p. 14, online only for subscribers

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 11.6 "  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 7.8"  E