House of the commercial health insurance fund

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The commercial building Haus der Handelskrankenkasse , formerly the house of the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa or Hansehaus , in Bremen - Mitte , Martinistraße 26, is a listed building .

history

Commercial building Hkk-Martinistraße 24

The four-story Schlachte 6 merchant's house with the Renaissance gable facade and its five storage hatches was preserved until 1913 . The 8.90 meter wide main house was built around 1590 and a little later a 3.90 meter wide, four-storey gabled house was added to the right of it over the later filled in river access to the Ulenstein . Both stepped, baroque gables were decorated with small fial-like obelisks .

The office building of the shipping company of the Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft "Hansa" at Martinistraße 26 , Schlachte 6 and the second battle gate was built from 1912 to 1915 according to the plans of the architects Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens and Friedrich Neumark . As early as 1888, the shipping company had bought and combined the various properties for this purpose. The two three-storey gabled houses were then built, which are connected by an intermediate structure. In both gabled houses, parts of two house gables from the Renaissance from around 1570 and 1630 were included. The two baroque, three-storey, stepped upper gable fields were decorated with ten small obelisks as pinnacles like their predecessor buildings from Martinistraße . The portal from around 1600 came from the demolished Schlachte 6 .

In 1944 the house was largely destroyed in World War II. The office building was rebuilt in its previous form from 1950 to 1953 according to plans by Arnold Bischoff and Peter Ahlers, and the interior design of the office space was adapted to contemporary developments.

In 1981 (other sources 1983) the Handelskrankenkasse acquired the building that has housed its head office since then.

The bronze eagle on a stone base by Hans Wimmer from Munich has stood in front of the building since 1971 . The eagle is intended to commemorate the Hanseatic League and the Hansa shipping company .

Monument protection

The building was placed under monument protection in 1973 as a Bremen cultural monument.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Stein : The community center in Bremen. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1970, p. 45.
  2. ↑ Lydia Niehoff: A house full of stories. The building of the Handelskrankenkasse in Bremen . Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89757-044-3 .
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

literature

  • Peter Kiehlmann and Holger Patzer: German Steamship Company "Hansa" Bremen. Trading town on the river . Bremen 1995.
  • Nils Aschenbeck: 33 houses in Bremen - 33 Bremen stories. Bremen 2004, pp. 41-46.
  • Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992, p. 38.
  • Lydia Niehoff : A house full of stories . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Nr. 80, Bremen 2001, p. 219.
  • Lydia Niehoff: A house full of stories. The building of the Handelskrankenkasse in Bremen. Hauschild Verlag : Bremen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89757-044-3 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 33.7 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 13.1"  E