Coffee house on the Emmasee
The coffee house on the Emmasee in Bremen - Schwachhausen , district Bürgerpark is a listed building . The new building is one of the most important buildings in Bremen .
history
Heinrich Müller designed the first coffee house on the north bank of the Emma lake in 1867 as a light, flat wooden structure called a tent . The popular coffee was expanded in 1874. In 1897, a more solid new building was built in the Tyrolean style at the same location with a high decorative tower (demolished in 1918) on the ceiling construction of the summer hall. In 1909 the house was given the music pavilion, named after the founder, banker Wätjen. The coffee house was destroyed in World War II.
Since 1951, the Bürgerparkverein intended to rebuild the café in the style of a half-timbered hall house . It was not until 1960 that financing could be secured from the funds of the Bürgerpark rombola.
The new one to two-storey coffee house on the Emmasee , a cubic structure with three square 8 m × 8 m pavilions, was built from 1963 to 1964 according to plans by the Bremen architects Hans Budde and Carsten Schröck in the Emmasee in the Bürgerpark near the zoo . Water from the inside and outside can be experienced transparently, as the house seems to float above the lake. The building was awarded the BDA price in 1974 with u. a. the reasoning of the jury: "The cautious, considerate integration of the coffee house into the attractive landscape of the Bürgerpark, taking advantage of the banks of the Emma lake, resulted in a leisure facility of high design quality ...".
The house has lost some of its design quality through redesigning.
Today (2014) the Emma am See building is named after Countess Emma von Lesum (around 975 / 980-1038), who, according to legend, donated a pasture to the city in 1032, today's Bürgerweide .
Monument protection
The building was placed under monument protection in 1984 as a Bremen cultural monument.
literature
- Architecture guide Bremen: Coffee house on Emmasee.
- Carsten Schröck: Architecture of a port city . Aschenbeck & Holstein-Verlag, Delmenhorst / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939401-44-5 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 39.3 " N , 8 ° 49 ′ 26.3" E