Merchant's House (Hamburg)

Merchant house

The merchant's house, is a retail and office complex in the Hamburg district of Neustadt . It stands between the streets Große Bleichen , Bleichenfleet and Neuer Wall . The address is Große Bleichen 31. In 2017 the Austrian Signa Holding acquired the merchant's house and the Alsterarkaden .

history

Facade detail on the canal side of the merchant's house

The merchant's house was built between 1906 and 1907 according to plans by Stammann & Zinnow . From 1976 to 1978 the building was converted by Graaf, Schweger & Partner . In the period from 2011 to 2013, plans by the American architecture firm Moed de Armas & Shannon formed the basis for modernization and redesign measures that were carried out on the merchant's house.

architecture

Light, glazed clinker bricks and glass elements characterize the facade of the building. The merchant's house has more than 23,000 square meters of commercial space on four floors and a basement .

use

The lower floors of the building are used by various shops, particularly in the clothing industry. On the upper floors are u. a. the Hamburg offices of the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and the internet portal Yelp .

See also

• List of office buildings in Hamburg
• Herrengrabenfleet
• Galleria

literature

• Hermann Hipp : Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster , DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 .

Web links

• Website of the Kaufmannshaus , accessed on May 27, 2019.
• Edgar S. Hasse: Kaufmannshaus shines again , accessed on May 27, 2019.
• Revitalization of the office and commercial building "Kaufmannshaus", Hamburg , accessed on May 27, 2019.
• Kaufmannshaus Hamburg , accessed on May 27, 2019.
• Kaufmannshaus , accessed on May 27, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New building project: Signa buys Hamburg's Gänsemarkt-Passage with Loschelder , accessed on May 27, 2019.
2. ↑ Signa buys German trophy assets in biggest real-estate deal of 2017 . Retrieved June 24, 2019.
3. ↑ Merchant's House | First choice. For first class. Retrieved November 16, 2019 (German). 
4. ↑ Hamburg | Germany | Global law firm | Norton Rose Fulbright. Retrieved November 16, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ INTERNET WORLD Business: Yelp opens new German headquarters in Hamburg. Retrieved November 16, 2019 (German).