Kontorhaus and Hafenspeicher Auf der Muggenburg
Kontorhaus and Hafenspeicher Auf der Muggenburg of the wine trading company Reidemeister & Ulrichs in Bremen, district Walle , district Überseestadt , Auf der Muggenburg 7 am Europahafen, built in 1951 (extension 1962) according to plans by Wilhelm Wortmann and Erik Schott , during the reconstruction of the Bremen ports . This modern industrial building is a listed building in Bremen . The Weser Tower is nearby .
history
The import trading company for wine and spirits Reidemeister & Ulrichs was founded in 1831. The first company headquarters were at 25 Sögestrasse and then at Pelzerstrasse and the corner of Sögestrasse. In 1897 the company acquired and renovated the Essighaus , Langenstrasse .
A former storage building had stood in Bremen-Mitte since 1899 , Auf der Brake (today the Siemens high-rise complex is located there ). The company buildings were destroyed in the Second World War . In 1946 the vinegar house could be used again as an emergency building. The company sold the property on the Brake to the city.
In 1951 the company moved into a new functional building with offices on Auf der Muggenburg at Bremen's Europahafen.
The production of quality wines then changed. Since the 1980s, the storage, refinement and bottling of the wines has increasingly taken place by the producers and the wine storage facility has lost its purpose; only the wine distribution remained. Reidemeister & Ulrichs has been part of the Bremen wine trading company Eggers & Franke since 2004 ; the company headquarters on the Muggenburg was given up.
The building
The five-storey, rectangular building from 1951 with 1700 m² of usable space based on a design by Wortmann and Schott (Bremen) faces the street Auf der Muggenburg and is framed on both sides by two set-back stair towers. The building has large cellars on two basement floors. This is where the control and monitoring of fermentation, the expansion of the wine in vats and barrels and its bottling took place. The storage floors for bottle storage were on the first four upper floors. The management and administration offices were on the top floor with all-round windows. There are two small atriums in the large building.
In 1954 a distillery and a boiler house were added, in 1955 the ramp on the west facade and in 1957 an elevator system. In 1962 the dispatch building with no basement was added to the east facade according to plans by Schott; Similar in design to the main building (1966 addition).
The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Bremen found: “Overall, the Reidemeister & Ulrichs company building is a successful industrial building of its time: the fixed structure through the freely visible reinforced concrete skeleton is the overriding principle. According to the function and clearly legible, there are closed fields with window strips under the ceiling frame and open "window fields" with low parapets; the stairwells, completely dissolved in glass and construction facing the street, give the building a special charm. "
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 0.8 ″ E