Wilhelm Holtorf grocery store

Shop on Ostertorsteinweg (2012)

Former commercial building (before 1903)

Listed facility (2012)

Interior design 2018

The grocery store Wilh. Holtorf (today: Holtorfs Heimathaven ) has existed since 1874 at Ostertorsteinweg 6 in Bremen . The deli in the so-called district is considered to be Germany's last grocery store and Bremen last mom-and-pop shop . The house and shop are under monument protection .

history

In 1874 the merchant Wilhelm Holtorf had a two-storey residential and commercial building built at Ostertorsteinweg 6 and opened his grocery store there on April 10, 1874 . The Ostertorsteinweg is still the most important street in what is now the Ostertor district of Bremen in the Mitte district . In 1903 the old building was replaced by a newly built four-story residential and commercial building, as it still exists today. In old age, the childless Holtorf bequeathed the property to the Schwiering family, who continued to run the business. The historic art nouveau shop furnishings in oak from 1910 have been preserved to this day. The Schwiering family ran the grocery store for three generations until 2013. After temporarily uncertain future prospects, the Bremen agricultural engineer Marcus Wewer acquired the residential and commercial building in August 2013 and has continued the business under the name Holtorf Feinkost & Kolonialwaren since 1874 .

In October 2017, the Oldenburg company Heimathaven took over the business and renamed it Holtorfs Heimathaven . Furthermore, delicacies and delicacies from selected manufacturers are sold.

Buildings and furnishings

The current five-story residential and commercial building in the reform style of the turn of the century was built in 1903 and replaced the standing in the same place two-story predecessor of 1874. The almost to the ceiling reaching store equipment is in Art Nouveau executed. The cabinet doors framed with different decorative glass in leaded glazing and profiled pilaster strips on the shelves, a clock decorated with floral ornamentation and many drawers with wooden handles bear witness to an era of art that committed itself to a new decorative ideal with the inclusion of art in everyday life. The four classic ceiling lamps with satined shades from a Spanish castle, which were procured to replace the gas lamps destroyed in the war , go well with this. The original floor tiles are from Villeroy & Boch .

Award

After a competition organized by Bild and RTL Radio , the shop received the award Germany's most beautiful corner shop '76 in 1976 .

Monument protection

The business with its rare historical shop fittings has an exceptional position for the preservation of monuments . The building and the shop have been a listed building since 1973 .