New granary
The New Kornhaus was a splendid storage building in Bremen built at the end of the 16th century , the overall shape of which in the Weser Renaissance style was significantly influenced by Lüder von Bentheim's work . The important historical building was destroyed during the Second World War in 1944 and has not yet been rebuilt .
Construction and shape
In the middle of the 16th century, after part of the old city wall , which separated the Stephaniviertel from the old town of Bremen, and the demolition of the Fangturm , Langenstraße 76, a larger piece of land between the Weser and Langenstraße - directly in front of the Natel gate - became free. The Bremen council decided to build a large granary on the property at Langenstrasse No. 78. To distinguish it from the Old Kornhaus at the Martini Church, this building was called the “New Kornhaus”. Both granaries existed around 1800. After the demolition of the old granary, the additional term “new” was rarely used.
Since the area was not large enough for the planned construction, additional adjacent land was acquired in 1566, which belonged to the family of Mayor Daniel von Büren the Younger . The actual construction of the granary did not begin until 1590. Parts of the catch tower - which once formed the end of the old city wall on the Weser side - were built into the eastern side wall of the granary. The work was done by master carpenter Tölke Hardenacke, master mason Jacob Hellemann, master blacksmith Giseke Knepel and master mason Lüder von Bentheim. In 1591 the New Kornhaus was completed.
The imposing dimensions of the brick and oak building were 52.50 meters in length and 14.80 meters in width. It had a high Renaissance gable, similar to that of the city scales built between 1586 and 1588 . It had four main floors, a basement and four attics. On the ground floor there was a room for the " corn masters", the rest was intended exclusively for the storage of grain .
The sandstone decorations on the two gable facades by von Bentheim encompassed corner cubes with circular ornaments, shell-shaped arches that combined the pairs of windows, ledge strips that divided the floors and were closed off with small obelisks in the area of the gable , as well as a wave-shaped scrollwork as the gable contour. On the first floor facing the street front, the Bremen city coat of arms with the date “Anno 1591” and the following inscriptions were affixed: “Rolandt bawenn these Kornscheuren / instead of the old stadmaurs / let them be trawled / to behave of his / citizenry with them Brodt / In Teurungs Zeit und Krieges Nodt. ” (For example:“ Roland had this granary built in place of the old city wall for his loyal citizens so that they could have bread in times of scarcity and war ”).
On the side facing Langenstrasse there was a two-winged gate above the street level, from which carts could be loaded directly. On the Weser side, the building closed off with the bank wall, so that ships could dock and unload directly at the granary.
use
The supervision of the granary was under two councilors , two parents of the merchant , two merchants, a baker and a Kramer . In addition, a clerk and several grain knives were employed here. They monitored that for every delivery of grain that arrived in Bremen, two bushels per load were given to the city. Towards the end of the 19th century, the granary lost its function as an urban granary and was then rented to merchants as a packing house .
Whereabouts
On October 6, 1944, the granary was destroyed in an air raid and was not rebuilt after the Second World War . The old city coat of arms on the facade with the inscription "Anno 1591" is today at the entrance to the Bremen State Archives on Fedellisten at the corner of President-Kennedy-Platz . The area of the former granary is free.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. E. Prosch: Old Bremen from a new era , Figs. 37 and 38, Hauschild, Bremen, 1908
- ↑ Karolin Bubke: Die Bremer Stadtmauer , page 70ff, State Archives Bremen, Bremen, 2007
- ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 247.
- ^ Herbert Black Forest: The Great Bremen Lexicon. Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 492.
literature
- Rudolf Stein : Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1962
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 47 ′ 54 ″ E