House of Speckhan
The house Speckhan (also bacon Hansches house ) was a medieval town house in Bremen , which was built in 1470 and demolished. 1828 It stood at Langenstrasse number 129 and was considered one of the most outstanding brick Gothic buildings in the city.
History of the house
Little is known about the origin of “probably the greatest Gothic town house in Bremen” - according to the assessment of the former Bremen monument conservator Rudolf Stein - but due to its size and appearance it is certain that it was built in the second half of the 15th century and wealthy family must have been built.
In the middle of the 17th century the house came into the possession of the mayor Statius Speckhan (1599–1679), after whom it got its later common name. During the siege of Bremen in the Second Bremen-Swedish War in 1666, the house was looted because Speckhan, a former Swedish State Councilor, was suspected of betting on a victory for the besiegers. The resulting damage had to be paid for later by the city.
At the beginning of the 19th century the building served as a packing house for the tobacco shop Hermann Ernst before it was demolished in 1828 to make way for a new building.
Shape of the house
The house with a width of 14.20 meters was one of the largest on Langenstrasse. It had a total of six floors, four of them in the high, three-tiered stepped gable covered with roof tiles , the highest point of which was adorned with a weather vane .
The entrance was formed by a large, slightly asymmetrical portal with a pointed arch and a multi-tiered reveal . The originally existing windows on the ground floor were replaced around 1600 by front-level oriels, so-called Utluchten . Above the Utluchten the facade was divided into five elongated, inwardly stepped rectangular fields, which corresponded to the staggered gable and of which the two outer ones were wider than the three inner ones. These surfaces formed pointed-arch blind niches , which in turn were subdivided into two narrower niches, over each of which a circular blind was placed. The actual window openings were closed with five-part trefoil arches. Horizontal sills broke through the towering vertical structure of the facade and contributed to its striking appearance.
At the rear, the property of the house bordered on the Belge , a branch of the Weser that has now disappeared.
literature
- Rudolf Stein: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1962.
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.6 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 17.8" E