Hotel on Hillmannplatz

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Hotel am Hillmannplatz, 2005 (main entrance on Hillmannplatz )

The hotel on Hillmannplatz in Bremen - Mitte , Bahnhofsvorstadt district on Hillmannplatz , is one of the most important buildings in Bremen .

Previous buildings

left: Hillmann Hotel around 1900

Hillmannplatz got its name after the Hillmann Hotel , which was destroyed in World War II and which Johann Heinrich Hillmann had built in 1847 at Herdentor / corner of Wallanlagen. It was rebuilt several times and received a facade in the neoclassical style of the 19th century. It was one of the finest hotels in the Hanseatic city and had around 300 beds in the 1930s.

After the war, the rather provisional single-storey Hillmannpassage with 22 shops and the Café Hillmann was built on the site of the hotel in 1949 . The café with roof terrace was a popular meeting place and a very busy dance hall in the evenings. The café and passage were demolished in 1971. In the 1950s to 1970s, a department store or an office high-rise and a 15-storey hotel tower were to be built at this point. However, high-rise buildings were strongly rejected by the population in the 1970 / 80s.

Today's construction

Part of the building facing Herdentorsteinweg

The hotel on Hillmannplatz was built for the Plaza Hotel company as a Marriott hotel from 1982 to 1985 according to plans by the gmp architectural association with Meinhard von Gerkan , Volkwin Marg and Partners (Hamburg). The five-storey, curved solitaire made of red clinker bricks with a stacked storey clad with zinc sheeting characterizes the side facing the Bremen ramparts . The hotel rooms are located on the upper four floors. A smaller shopping arcade led diagonally through the building from the northern Hillmannplatz to a glass-covered rotunda and on to Contrescarpe and Herdentorsteinweg in the direction of Sögestraße .
The Hillmannplatz car park, which was awarded an architecture prize, was designed by the same architectural office in 1984/85 .

The architecture guide bremen writes about the building: “The solution that was finally implemented says goodbye to the modernist high-rise buildings and combines the historically proven functions of hotel and shopping mall. Changed architectural models can also be seen in the massive brick-clad facade with its window windows and segmental arches. The elongated office building on the Kleine Weser, completed in 1998, is particularly convincing on its south side, where the riverside path on the Kleine Weser has been excitingly integrated into the building made of dark clinker bricks by means of an arcade. "

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 was traditionally called "Hillmann's" for the location. The hotel owner, Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts , has been part of the Accor Group since 2016 .

Another change of ownership took place in 2019 and the Dorint Group took over the Swissôtel in Bremen from Accor Invest , together with two other hotels in Leipzig and Würzburg. From June 1, 2019, the Hotel am Hillmannplatz will be called Dorint City-Hotel Bremen and will continue to have 230 rooms. The Dorint Group already operates two other hotels in Bremen, the Parkhotel and a hotel in the Vahr .

Today (2019) the building next to the hotel houses various restaurants, pubs, shops and a pharmacy. On the ground floor of the building is 1985 to today since the establishment gourmet restaurant and bistro Grashoff , among which a wine and delicatessen.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hotel am Hillmannplatz  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Matzner : Hillmanns Hotel and the family connection to the postman Hillmann in Burgdamm. In: Heimat-Rundblick . History, culture, nature. No. 112, 1/2015 ( spring 2015 ). Druckerpresse-Verlag, ISSN  2191-4257 , pp. 10-11.
  2. ↑ architecture guide bremen : Hotel am Hillmannplatz
  3. ↑ Stefan Lake Band: Dorint accepts Bremen Swissôtel. In: weser-kurier.de . June 4, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 33.1 ″  E