House on the water

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House on the water

The house on the water , on Vegesack Weserpromenade 2 in the Vegesack city garden , is located in Bremen , the Vegesack district . It was built in 1927 according to plans by the architect Ernst Becker . The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1994 .

history

Aerial view of the Weser promenade; the house by the water is in the top right of the picture.

The Vegesack rowing club had the house built as a boat and club house in 1927 by the then “radically modern” architect Ernst Becker in the Bauhaus style.

The boat storage facility was on the ground floor, from which the boats to the Weser could be pushed out through two large gates . The recessed upper floor provided space for the club rooms. A small observation tower provided a good view of the Weser and the club or bacon flag was hoisted . During the Second World War, the tower was "shortened" by about two meters by an aerial bomb.

In 1974 the Vegesack rowing club moved to the Grohner Yachthafen and left the house by the water. After 1974 the resident Carola Schulz kept over 300 parrots there, which is why the building was popularly known as the parrot house .

The artist and curator Hanns Joachim “Hajo” Antpöhler (1930–2011) used the house as an exhibition space and between 1990 and 1998 organized more than 40 art presentations there.

In 2000 the sculptor Thomas Recker and the painter Helmut Streich rented the house as an artist's studio .

Today (2018) the 114 m² house on the water is still used as a gallery and studio . Due to its proximity to the Weser, it is at risk of flooding . The doors and gates offer flood protection, but permanent living is not permitted there as there is no second escape route. The listed building belongs to the city of Bremen, whereby Immobilien Bremen is looking for a new buyer.

literature

  • Walter Müller-Wulckow : Buildings of the community (German architecture of the present, Bd. 2) . Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus / Leipzig 1928
  • Nils Aschenbeck : Nice, modern and above all factual. Buildings by the Vegesack architect Ernst Becker Bremer Nachrichten August 26, 1995, special page
  • Nils Aschenbeck: 33 houses in Bremen - 33 Bremen stories . aschenbeck media, Bremen 2004, ISBN 978-3932292705 .
  • Susanne Schöß: Bremen-Nord, a place of modernity? Buildings from the 1920s in Vegesack and Blumenthal = Monument Preservation in Bremen, Issue 10, Bremen 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ^ A b Albrecht-Joachim Bahr: Nice location with problems. Weser-Kurier, Die Norddeutsche , September 14, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Armin Seedorf: History: Vegesacker rowing club. vegesack.de, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Peter Groth: "Haus am Wasser" - a stroke of luck for art. Weser-Kurier, Die Norddeutsche , July 1, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Imke Molkewehrum: Domicile for exotic species and art. Weser-Kurier, Die Norddeutsche , May 19, 2013, accessed on September 23, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 '10.93 "  N , 8 ° 37' 14.15"  E