Langenstrasse (Bremen)

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Long street
coat of arms
Street in Bremen
Basic data
city Bremen
District Old town
Created around 1100 in the Middle Ages, first mentioned in 1234
Newly designed around 1998
Cross streets Breedenstr., High Street, Waagestr., Small and Large Weser st., Martinistr ., Ansgaritränkpforte, Crane Gate, Mayor Smidt road , last Schlachtpforte, Fangturm , Wenkenstr., Geeren
Buildings Stadtwaage , Essighaus , Sonnenapotheke, Kontorhaus Suding and Soeken
use
User groups Cars, bikes, pedestrians
Road design Two lane road
Technical specifications
Street length 550 meters
The Bremer Stadtwaage 2006
Langenstrasse around 1907

The Long Road is a historic street in the old town of Bremen . It runs parallel to Obernstrasse and the Weser from the market square in a westerly direction to the Geeren and the Stephaniviertel .

The cross streets were u. a. named as Breed Street 1360 as Brede- called = width road leading to the ferry, High Street to its high location, Large scale road after 1330 mentioned Stadtwaage , Ansgari tränkpforte (cattle trough of the district) and Crane Gate (resulting in the largest crane ) and last Schlachtpforte ( led to Schlachte ) to the gates in the Bremen city wall , Wenkenstrasse to a family who lived here; otherwise see the link to the streets.

history

By 1700

The Langenstrasse was first mentioned in 1234 as " longa platea ", so it got its name because of its length. As one of the oldest streets in Bremen, it certainly dates back to the time the city was founded around 800. It developed between the northern edge of the Bremen dune and the southern bellows , an arm of the Weser that has now disappeared and is considered the city's first port . In the Middle Ages, Langenstrasse ended at the city ​​wall and the “Natel” city gate. It was once the important main street in the Kaufmannviertel, between the dune ridge and the Weser. The first stone buildings were built in the 13th century, mostly residential buildings with merchants' offices. On the Weser side, the houses reached down to the Balge, and many also had storage facilities from which the Weser barges could be loaded and unloaded directly.
From 1425 to 1444 the Bremen merchants used the house on the corner of Hakenstrasse as a guild house. Afterwards, the merchant's parents bought a house on the property of today's Schütting .

The Hollemannsburg was a stone house belonging to the Hollemann bourgeois family at Langenstrasse 98/99, which became known because the merchant and pirate Johann Hollemann lived here. His pirates were the reason that Bremen had to rejoin the Hanseatic League in 1358 and pursue the pirates. In 1366, after a social uprising from 1365 to 1366, the so-called banner run , Hollemann was killed and hung up in front of his house. The house, then owned by other bourgeois families, was rebuilt in 1534, was owned by the von Wehye and Heimburg families in the 16th century and later had to make way for a new building.

18th and 19th centuries

Around 1750 there were around 150 houses in Langenstrasse. Until the 19th century it was mainly a residential street, then it changed to a street with numerous commercial buildings and shops. With the construction of the Kaiserbrücke (today Mayor Smidt Bridge ) in 1875 and the increasing widening of today's Mayor Smidt Straße , the western part of Langenstraße was isolated from the old town.

The tram in Langenstrasse (from 1889 to 1916)

In 1888 a horse-drawn tram line, the "red line", was opened from the newly opened free port to Faulenstrasse and in 1889 it was extended to the stock exchange. Because the parallel and wider Obernstraße was already occupied by the competing “green line”, it was extended via Heinkenstraße - Geeren - Langenstraße. After electrification in 1900, the red line was expanded to become the ring line of the Bremen tram in 1901 . It initially ran on a single track on one side of the street through Langenstrasse. After protests by business people on this side of the street because of the lack of charging facilities, two tracks were laid in sections and single-tracked alternately (morning and afternoon) so that charging could be carried out on each side of the street at certain times. Tram traffic in Langenstrasse ended in 1916.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , Martinistraße emerged as a western road breakthrough, which in turn divided the eastern Langenstraße, so that the street can no longer be experienced as one unit today. It could therefore no longer develop into a shopping street. It was redesigned around 2005. In 2007 an existing multi-storey car park with 660 parking spaces was significantly expanded.

building

Existing buildings

As important buildings in the Long Street are a brick built with sandstone ornaments in the style of the Weser Renaissance and Rococo to call:

Earlier buildings

The buildings , which have since been destroyed or removed by the war, date from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (attention: the house numbering was carried out again):

  • The first Schütting , until 1537, was the house of the Bremen merchants near the Stadtwaage.
  • The mint (corner of Hakenstrasse) from 1564/83
  • The old stables of the Bremen Council , which was sold in 1598
  • The Niklausstaven , an old bathing room ("Sunte Niklaus Staven")
  • The house on Langenstrasse No. 16 (older numbering) of the Meier-Grolland council family existed from 1618 to 1921.
  • The Wrissenbergische house no. 34 was destroyed in 1944. Parts of the baroque gable with its Rococo were spandrels for the Südgiebel (for Hutfilterstraße of) commercial building used.
  • The simple house at Langenstrasse No. 54 was the tallest town house of its time with a ridge height of 24 meters.
  • The stone house No. 98/99, the Hollemannsburg , belonged to the merchant and pirate Johann Hollemann from 1358 to 1366. It was rebuilt in 1534 and demolished in 1869 for a new building (see also history).
  • The four-storey merchant's house at Langenstrasse No. 121 with a renaissance portal, which was destroyed in 1944
  • The merchant's house at Langenstrasse No. 126 was built around 1600 and demolished in 1903.
  • The Gothic Speckhansche Haus , Langenstrasse No. 129 , named after Mayor Speckhan , was the largest house with a width of 14.20 meters; it existed from around 1470 to 1828.
  • The Dreikaiserhaus on the corner of Langenstrasse and Kaiserstrasse (today Mayor-Smidt-Strasse ) had its official address on Kaiserstrasse. It was built in 1890 as a four-storey office building according to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Rauschenberg in the historicism style and destroyed in the Second World War. The eponymous stone figures of the three emperors ( Wilhelm I , Friedrich III and Wilhelm II ) of the German Empire were on the facade . There was a restaurant on the ground floor. a. was operated by Richard Sieler. For the last landlord - Walther Rost - a stumbling block was laid in 2018 .

Monument protection

The following buildings are currently under monument protection :

Web links

Commons : Langenstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the history of Langenstrasse, Weser-Kurier of March 12, 1960, p. 33, online only for subscribers
  2. ↑ Chronology of the Bremen Tram ( Memento from February 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (former BSAG website)
  3. ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 211.
  4. ↑ Kornelia Renemann: Walther rust, * 1887th stolpersteine-bremen.de, accessed on September 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 18 ″  E