Hutfilterstrasse

Hutfilterstrasse
	Street in Bremen
Basic data
city	Bremen
District	Old town
Created	Middle Ages, mentioned in 1455
Newly designed	2000s
Cross streets	Short pilgrimage, Ansgarikirchhof , Ansgaritorwallstraße
Buildings	Finke high-rise , Brillissimo
use
User groups	Tram and pedestrians
Road design	Pedestrian zone, two tram tracks
Technical specifications
Street length	180 meters

Extract from the Merian plan from 1641: Ansgariikirche , below to the west the Hutfilterstrasse

The Hutfilterstraße is a historical street in east-west direction in the Bremen old town . As part of a spacious pedestrian zone, it is a main shopping street. It leads from Obernstrasse to Am Brill / Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse .

The cross streets were named as a short pilgrimage after their use in bad weather , shortened processions for Corpus Christi , Ansgarikirchhof after the earlier (1229–1944) Ansgariikirche and Ansgaritorwallstraße after the gate in the Bremen city wall .

history

Finke high-rise

Brillissimo from 2010, looking north

Surname

The street was named after the hat felters , the hat makers who made hats from felt . In 1455 it was mentioned as a Hotfilterstrate .

development

The street ended at the city wall, which separated the old town from the Stephaniviertel . The dividing wall remained in place until around 1450 and only a small pedestrian gate, the Brill, led to the west. In 1561 the Haus Seefahrt company moved into their first own house in Hutfilterstrasse (demolished around 1874 when the road through Kaiserstrasse), where the Schaffermahlzeit also took place. After the Reformation, the beguines lived in some of the houses.

In the 19th century there were mostly two to three-story buildings on the street. At that time, Hutfilterstrasse led from the eastern Lanquedlerstrasse (today Obernstrasse ) across Am Brill to Neuer Weg and Faulenstrasse in the Stephaniviertel. From 1873 to 1875, the road for Kaiserstraße (now Mayor-Smidt-Straße ) was breached and the connection to Hutfilterstraße, which ran a short distance west of Kaiserstraße , was changed.
In 1879 a horse-drawn tram line ( Hastedt - Walle ) was run through the street by the company Große Bremer Pferdebahn . Around 1900 the electrification of the single-track tram took place here. In 1898 a new construction line was laid down for the narrow Hutfilterstrasse; the street became wider and the houses higher. In 1902, for traffic-related reasons, the now triangular Patz Am Brill was expanded as a junction between Kaiserstraße , Hutfilterstraße and Am Neuen Weg / Faulenstraße . The Hutfilterstraße now ends at Am Brill with its three to four-story buildings. In 1905 Otto Frundt opened the first shop cinema on the street.

In World War II were (almost) destroyed all the houses. During the reconstruction, the street was widened throughout. The construction of the Finke high-rise building in the vicinity of the commercial building in Bremen from 1621 in the Weser Renaissance style was particularly important in 1956 . The contrast between old and new was emphasized. The architecture guide bremen writes: "The building was built as an eleven-story skyscraper at the request of the town planning department, in order to take over the optical function of the destroyed tower of the [destroyed] Ansgarikirche at the end of Obernstrasse ."

traffic

Today (2019) the street will be used by the Bremen tram lines 2 ( Gröpelingen - Sebaldsbrück ) and 3 (Gröpelingen - Weserwehr ).

building

Of the five to seven storey commercial and office buildings, a. worth mentioning:

No. 3: 11-gesch. Finke high-rise as a commercial and office building from 1956 based on plans by Rudi Richter and Willi Kläner
No. 13: The two-story classicist building of the first Adler pharmacy, erected around 1821, stood on the north side .

Hutfilterstrasse at the corner of Am Brill / Bürgermeister-Smidt-Strasse, south side:

3-tier Office building from 1876 to 1898 of the manufacture and white goods shop C. Klockgeber, the sewing machine and bicycle shop Wilhelm Preiss and the doctor Dr. HC Piessing.
4-tier Magnificent, historicizing commercial building from after 1874 to 1928
6-tier Corner house ( Tipphoiken-Haus , Kaiserstraße 26 / 26a) from around 1928/1930 based on plans by Joseph Ostwald in the classic modern style ( Bauhaus ), DeFaKa department store since 1933 , destroyed in 1942
Design from 1960 for an unrealized high-rise based on plans by Max Säum
4-tier Department store from 1964 with a plastic facade based on plans by Säum
7-sch. Investment BRILLissimo of 2010, designed by Green Cloth Ernst (Berlin)

Hutfilterstraße at the corner of Am Brill / Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße, north side:
- No. 23: 4-sch. historicizing commercial building from 1910 to 1944 (destroyed) based on plans by August Abbehusen and Otto Blendermann ; the Adler pharmacy was located here

literature

Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings - 1950–1979 . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .
Hans Hermann Meyer: The Bremen old town. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-686-7 .
Herbert Black Forest : View of Bremen. Views - bird watching - city maps from the 16th - 19th centuries. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-7961-1759-7 .

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

↑ Bremen Architecture Guide Bremen : Finke-Hochhaus , ed. B.zb.

^ Lithograph by Conrad Hardegen (1819–1883) from 1840.

^ HH Meyer: The Bremen old town. 2003, p. 169.

^ HH Meyer: The Bremen old town. 2003, p. 171.

^ HH Meyer: The Bremen old town. 2003, p. 172.

↑ Adler pharmacy, corner of Hutfilter and Kaiserstraße in Bremen. In: Architectural Review. 27, Bremen 1911, pp. 66-67.