Stadtsparkasse building (Bremen)

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Marktplatz: Sparkasse on the left on the northwest side; right Roland and town hall

The Stadtsparkasse building on Bremen's market square is a reconstructed monument from the Rococo period .

history

The wine merchant and councilor Johann Georg Hoffschlaeger († 1763) commissioned the house for its original location on the Schlachte (today's house number 31 b). The sculptor Theophilus Wilhelm Frese built a building with a richly decorated rococo facade around 1755. This consisted of a wig gable with utlucht , which was decorated with sandstone sculptures.

In 1836 this house was bought by Georg Friedrich Pflüger, who ran the Gasthof Stadt Paris here . The property was taken over by the goods knife Carl Wilhelm Meyer in 1875. At the beginning of the 20th century, a new building was built according to plans by Albert Dunkel , whereby the Rococo facade was retained.

The house was destroyed in an incendiary attack during World War II in 1944. The later Bremen monument conservator Rudolf Stein had some of the rubble recovered. The house was reconstructed in 1957/58 after a competition at the confluence of Langenstrasse in the market square by the architect Eberhard Gildemeister and the sculptors Maria Ewel and Ingeborg Ahner-Siese using original substance in the former style. The newly emerging red-stone-faced side facades had to be subordinate to the front. The new door with the skylight on the market side is remarkable . The interior also received many baroque elements.

Today there is a branch of the Sparkasse Bremen in the house .

Monument protection

In 1973 the house was placed under a preservation order.

The building ensemble on the northwest side of the market square consists of the following four buildings from right to left:

  • No. 1 Rathscafé / Deutsches Haus from 1908–1911 and 1951/1956,
  • No. 9 Haus Zum Jonas from 1600 and 1963,
  • No. 11 Raths-Apotheke from 1893–1894 and 1959–1960,
  • No. 12 House of the Stadtsparkasse from 1755 and 1957–1958.

literature

  • Eberhard Gildemeister: The house of the Pflüger family on the Schlachte . In: On the life and fate of Bremen buildings in city and country , Bremen 1949.
  • Rudolf Stein: Bremen Baroque and Rococo , 1960.
  • Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992.

Web links

Commons : Marketplace of Bremen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  3. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 33.2 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 23.5"  E