House of the Seven Lazy

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The house of the seven lazy people at Bremer Böttcherstraße 7 was built between 1924 and 1927 as a HAG house based on designs by Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge . It is one of the most interesting examples of German architecture from the interwar period and has been a listed building since 1973.

history

Seven lazy fountain in the courtyard of the Paula Becker Modersohn house
Figures on the house of Aloys Röhr

Around 1900 there were several two-story, eaves- facing, small commercial buildings on Böttcherstraße (formerly Bödeker strate ), which were demolished in 1921 as part of the new development on Böttcherstraße. Characteristic were several horizontal buttresses from wall to wall above the street.

Ludwig Roselius had convinced the Senate and the building authorities of the city with the plan to build a small colony for artists and small craftspeople with studios, shops and apartments near the market square, in line with the north German building tradition. In 1924, Roselius therefore acquired the heritable building right for 60 years from the Bremen state for the properties at Böttcherstrasse No. 15 to 19 (old number designations). After the renovation of the Roselius house and the packing houses at Böttcherstraße 4 to 5, the rebuilding of Böttcherstraße on the west side could be continued from 1924 to 1927.

Initially, Kaffee Hag's exhibition and lounges were housed in the house , as well as shops and the office of the German Werkbund .

In October 1944, incendiary bombs destroyed almost the entire Böttcherstrasse. The buildings were rebuilt almost true to the original by 1954.

In 1979 Ludwig Roselius jun. Böttcherstraße as part of Kaffee HAG to General Foods (now Mondelēz International ), but it was bought back in 1981 by the Roselius family. In 1989, Sparkasse Bremen took over the entire street, including its buildings, except for the Atlantis building. In 2004 Böttcherstraße became part of the Bremer Sparer-Dank Foundation . It is operated by Böttcherstraße GmbH , a subsidiary of the financial holding company of the Sparkasse in Bremen.

Today (as of 2014) there are various shops in the building.

Surname

Initially, the entire complex was called the HAG-Haus , later the name Haus St. Petrus prevailed for the component on Martinistraße with the stepped gable .

It was named after the Bremen legendary characters of the seven lazy people after the reconstruction in 1954. The legend was written down by the Bremen folk tale writer Friedrich Wagenfeld . It tells of seven lazy sons of a poor farmer who go out into the world and come back with innovative ideas. As large stone figures created by Aloys Röhr in 1924-27 on the heels of the stepped gable, they are just as reminiscent of the popular legend as the clay reliefs by Bernhard Hoetger on the seven-lazy fountain in the inner courtyard of the Paula-Becker-Modersohn House, a few steps away.

Building

The elongated development on Böttcherstraße 7 and between the street Hinter dem Schütting , on the square-like extension at the Roselius House and opposite the Paula Becker-Modersohn House , was designed by the architects Runge and Scotland.

The two-storey, eaves brick building has a consistently low plot depth, with a moving ridge. In the design, the stylistic devices of a north German neo-Gothic were used as homeland security architecture with the inclusion of the regional building tradition. With dormers, galleries and gables , the architects succeeded in creating a varied facade design. Like all buildings on Böttcherstraße, the red bricks characterize the facades. The arcade on the ground floor took into account the traffic that was still possible at the time of construction.

The figures of the seven lazy ones on the gable to the street Hinter dem Schütting are by the sculptor Aloys Röhr from Münster. Simplifications were made when repairing war damage. Only the former tasting room of the Kaffee-HAG with its tiled walls is preserved from the high-ranking original equipment. The sculptural decoration on the facade comes from Engelhard Tölken.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 9, Bremen 1877, page 76.
  3. ↑ Photos in Dr. E. Prosch: Old Bremen from old and new times , Fig. 26. Artists' Association / Hauschild, Bremen 1908.
  4. ^ Hermann Gutmann: Die Böttcherstrasse - A reading book. P. 102 f.

Web links

Commons : Böttcherstraße  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 21.9 ″  E