Lloyd building

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The Lloyd building in 1932

The Lloyd building in Bremen was the administrative headquarters of the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) from 1910 to 1945 .

The first Comptoir Founded in 1857, the North German Lloyd was in the Martini street in the old town of Bremen , but it was moved to the Pape road no. 6 soon. In the course of the shipping company's economic success, additional adjacent buildings were purchased in the following years. In 1907 - on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the NDL - the entire block of houses between Papenstrasse, Pelzerstrasse, Großer and Kleiner Hundestrasse was demolished and the foundation stone was laid for a new, representative administrative center in the neo-renaissance style based on a design by Johann Georg Poppe . Discrepancies arose between NDL director Heinrich Wiegand and Poppe when the cost of the magnificent building exceeded the agreed framework, but the building was completed as planned in 1910.

The Lloyd building was the largest building in Bremen at the beginning of the 20th century and was considered "imposing and colossal". It had large gables and a striking tower - popularly known as the "bottle". During an air raid on October 6, 1944, in which the entire development on Grosse Hundestrasse was badly hit, the Lloyd building also suffered considerable damage, but remained in partial ruin. After the end of the war, Norddeutsche Lloyd first used the undamaged basement of the building to restart the shipping company, but then moved to the undamaged former Lloyd baggage compartment building at the main station . In the following years the senator rented the premises for the building industry. In 1953 the damaged tower and the gable were removed and the structure repaired as a torso. The well-known Remmers Bierstuben restaurant was located in the cellar on Grosse Hundestrasse from 1949 to 1968 .

In 1968 it was sold to Horten AG , which had the building torn down in 1969 in order to build a new "Horten" department store with hydrangea tiles , which was opened in 1972. It has been operating under the name Galeria Kaufhof since 1985 .

The adjoining Lloydpassage and the Lloydhof are still reminiscent of the former building.

literature

  • Johann Georg Poppe, W. Ehlers: The administrative building of the North German Lloyd in Bremen: built in the years 1901–1910 . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1913.
  • Dirk J. Peters (Ed.): The North German Lloyd - From Bremen to the World - "Global Player" in the history of shipping . Hauschild, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-360-4 .
  • Lloyd Passage. Large dog street in Bremen: From the crafts street to the shopping and Promenade . Döll, Bremen 1990, ISBN 978-3-88808-073-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. Lloyd Passage. Large dog street in Bremen: From the crafts street to the shopping and Promenade . Döll, Bremen 1990, ISBN 978-3-88808-073-9 , pp.  28 f .
  2. Dirk J. Peters (Ed.): The North German Lloyd - From Bremen to the World - "Global Player" in shipping history . Hauschild, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-360-4 , p. 34 .
  3. Remmer, remember? at wkgeschichte.weser-kurier.de
  4. ^ Horten becomes Galeria Kaufhof - redesign of the department store is in progress, Weser-Kurier of March 11, 1997, p. 17, online only for subscribers

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 19.6 ″  E