Marble Hall (Coffee HAG)

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View into the marble hall towards the entrance (2014)

The marble hall is an interior space in the former coffee factory of the Kaffee HAG company . It is located in the former Kaffee-HAG-Werk I , which is located in the Überseestadt district of Bremen 's Walle district , which was created in 2009 . The company founder and then plant director Ludwig Roselius had the room equipped with marble wall cladding in 1914 . The marble hall was the representative focal point of the coffee factory and has been a Bremen monument since 1994 .

description

The marble hall is located on the ground floor of a warehouse extension building at Kaffee-HAG-Werk I in Hagstrasse. It is around 30 meters long and around 15 meters wide. The walls are clad with Italian Carrara marble . Originally the room had a dark parquet floor , today it is a light stone floor. On one side of the wall there are showcases made of dark wood, which were designed in Art Nouveau style. Objects from the company's history, such as original packaging, advertising signs and porcelain, are shown in the showcases today. Decorative windows with opaque glazing are installed on two sides of the hall and are decorated with the coats of arms of countries such as Saxony, Brandenburg, East Prussia , Lower Silesia and Bremen.

  • Table in the marble hall in front of the Bremen window

  • Coffee tasting counter

  • Marble sink, behind the counter

  • Window with the coats of arms of the Prussian provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg

  • Set table at an event in the Marble Hall (2010)

history

The hall, which was created for representative purposes, was built in 1914 according to plans by the Bremen architects Hildebrand  & Günthel in the coffee factory built in 1906. Due to the First World War , the hall was officially inaugurated on March 23, 1916 and the extension building could not be completed until 1920 as a result of the war. The factory director Ludwig Roselius received business partners and ambassadors from other countries in the marble hall . At a counter, both “Kaffee HAG” and samples of all other types and qualities of coffee were served in their original and decaffeinated state .

In addition, the marble hall served as an exclusive dining room for the owner Roselius and his nearly 40 directors, who regularly dined there for lunch. The use of the hall was strictly regulated and testified to the internal hierarchy , in addition to the boss and the directors, only members of the supervisory board and their guests dined here. All other employees only got to see the inside of the marble hall at company anniversaries . The workers' canteen was below the hall in the basement. After the sale of Kaffee HAG AG to the US company General Foods in 1979, the hall was only rarely used and was mostly empty; henceforth the directors also had to go to the company canteen at lunchtime. Later the hall was occasionally used as a polling station for works council elections ; in 1991 it was closed. Today the marble hall can be rented for events such as weddings and other occasions. Visits are possible as part of coffee seminars at the Lloyd coffee roastery located in the same building .

literature

  • Nicola Vetter: Ludwig Roselius. A pioneer in German public relations . Hauschild, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-157-9 , pp. 63 .

Web links

Commons : Marble Hall (Kaffee HAG)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen .
  2. ↑ See information about Lloyd Caffee at bremen.tourismus.de; accessed December 10, 2017.
  3. ^ Nicola Vetter: Ludwig Roselius. A pioneer in German public relations. Hauschild, Bremen 2002, p. 63.
  4. ↑ Volker Kölling: On the trail of coffee in Bremen . Dossier in the Weser-Kurier of June 24, 2017, p. 22 (PDF; 1,150 kB; accessed December 10, 2017).
  5. ^ Sara Sundermann: Marble Hall in the Holzhafen is 100 years old. The heart of Kaffee HAG . In: Verden news . May 2, 2014, p. 11 ( online at weser-kurier.de; accessed December 6, 2017).

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 10.4 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 57.5"  E