Hillmannplatz

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Hillmannplatz
Bremen coat of arms (middle) .svg
Place in Bremen
Hillmannplatz
Sculpture The Evil One
Basic data
city Bremen
district Bremen-center
Created 1978
Confluent streets Bahnhofstrasse, Birkenstrasse, Herdentorsteinweg
Buildings Contrescarpe Center , Hotel on Hillmannplatz , Siemens high-rise
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport
Space design u. a. Sculpture The Evil by Ulrich Rückriem

The Hillmannplatz is a square in Bremen-Mitte . It is located south of Bremen Central Station on Bahnhofstrasse . Birkenstrasse , Hillmannstrasse , Herdentorsteinweg , Herdentor and the Bremer Wallanlagen with the Contrescarpe road connect to the square .

The square is designed as a heavily greened pedestrian zone. It is surrounded by shops and office buildings, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, an event center, a cinema and a multi-storey car park .

history

left: Hillmann Hotel around 1900
Hotel am Hillmannplatz , view from Hillmannplatz

The square was named after the Hillmann Hotel , which was destroyed in World War II and which Johann Heinrich Hillmann had built in 1847 at the Herdentor / corner of Wallanlagen. It was rebuilt several times and received a facade in the neoclassical style of the late 19th century. It was one of the finest hotels in the Hanseatic city and had around 300 beds in the 1930s. Like all other buildings in the area, the hotel was destroyed in the air raids on Bremen in 1944.

After the war, the rather provisional, single-storey Hillmannpassage with 22 shops and the Café Hillmann was built on the site of the Hillmann Hotel . The café was a popular meeting place and a very busy dance hall in the evenings. The café and passage were demolished in 1971.

The skyscraper projected there in 1978 was not enforceable against the will of the citizens. In the 1980s , the square was designed in its current form. According to plans by the architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners , a five-story hotel with a red stone view was built for the Marriott Group on Hillmannplatz from 1982 to 1985 , through which a small shopping arcade led. In the building that is still today gourmet restaurant and bistro Grashoff , among which a wine and delicatessen. The Hillmannplatz multi-storey car park, which was awarded an architecture prize, was built by the same architects in 1984 .

Marriott gave up the hotel around 2003 and the small passage was closed. End of 2008, was there five-star - Swissôtel opened with 230 rooms and the former Passage of the hotel struck. The hotel's own restaurant is traditionally called "Hillmann's" for the location.

In 1988 the granite sculpture Der Böse was erected on Bahnhofstrasse based on a design by Ulrich Rückriem . Also in 1988, the sculpture Documenta 2 - From the Museum des Steins - was installed by the same artist on the square on Herdentorsteinweg between the Hotel on Hillmannplatz and the Wallanlagen / Contrescarpe - today's Loriotplatz  .

In 2013, a part of Hillmannplatz in front of Bistro Grashoff was renamed Loriotplatz , as the humorist Loriot often stayed here when he was in Bremen.

Hillmannplatz currently

Restaurants, pubs and cafes have settled on Hillmannplatz. Since 1987, the Bremen Wine Festival has been held on the square in summer (late August or early September) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hillmannplatz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bremer Weinfest am Hillmannplatz , Swisstimes, July 22, 2011

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 50.2 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 34.6"  E