Packhouse Schnoor 2

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Packhouse Schnoor 2

The former Schnoor 2 packing house is a well-known monument in the small old town of Schnoor in Bremen . With the Schnoor 15 from 1402, it is the oldest secular building still preserved in Bremen and in the Schnoor.

In 1973 the house was placed under a preservation order. Today the artist house AUSSPANN is located in the packing house .

history

In 1401 the former packing house and today's residential and commercial building was built as a two-storey Gothic building. The small gable corner house with a gable roof on the corner of the streets Schnoor 2 and Hinter der Balge was built at a time when the first stone Roland Roland from 1404 and the gothic Bremen town hall from 1405 to 1410 were built in the imperial city of Bremen. The Low German street name Schnoor ( Snoor ) means cord, because there, it is said, the houses are lined up like a string. However, the name refers to the ship's craft and the manufacture of ropes and ropes (= cord).

Renovations were carried out in 1500 and 1837, followed by a series of renovations. The conversion from (after) 1837 to the Jakobiwitwenhaus took place in the classicism style . Its use as a packing house was given up in the 19th century. The term Packhaus is used in Bremen for structures that are called warehouse buildings in other Hanseatic cities such as Lübeck, Hamburg and Stralsund .

In 1959, Wolfgang Fritz bought the house. He was the son of Emil Fritz , the operator of the nationally famous Variété, the Astoria, for decades . Wolfgang Fritz, who ran the Astoria from 1954 to 1959 together with his stepmother Elisabeth Fritz after the death of his father, set up a beer and wine restaurant in Schnoor 2, creating transitions to the two neighboring houses. This forced a complicated network of stairs and stairs. In the immediate vicinity on the small forecourt is the Schnoor 1 residential building , which is closely connected to this house. Up until a few years ago , Schnoor 1 was a wedding house , connected to no. 2. These houses received an influx of couples wishing to marry because the marriage in the cathedral required the couple to have accommodation in Bremen. Schnoor 1 was built in 1968 according to plans by the preservationist Karl Dillschneider after the dilapidated previous building with the same floor plan had been demolished. The portal, behind which the kitchen is today, dates from the 17th century, two coats of arms from around 1600 with an inscription are on one side. A field stone on the forecourt, based on Schnoor 2, comes from the Bremen city wall from after 1229 and bears a corresponding plaque.

Since 2015/16, the house with the Ausspann plaque has been run through an artist's house, which has retained the interior furnishings including the only surviving forge in Schnoor. This artist house AUSSPANN , the starting point of which was the artist house Art15 in house Schnoor 15 , offers language and art offers for refugees, workshops , art exhibitions and courses as well as gastronomy. The three originally belonging houses cover a total area of ​​350 m². A non-profit association has existed since 2018, the projects are financed through the catering industry, but also through the sale of works of art (e.g. works from the estate of Doris Lenkeit, † April 2018) and finally through crowdfunding . In 2018 the Künstlerhaus received the Bremen Citizens' Prize . At the end of 2019, however, the institution was threatened with financial failure.

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  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ↑ Liane Janz: Artists are drawn to Schnoor 2 . In: Weser-Kurier from February 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Heinz-Gert Ries: Investigations on the problem of the redevelopment of urban areas close to the city and an analysis of the socio-economic functional change in renewed inner city areas. Shown using the examples of the Dörfle in Karlsruhe and the Schnoor district in Bremen , Diss., Cologne 1976, p. 42.
  4. ^ Anke Velten: Crowdfunding from Bremen project. Integration forge needs help , in: Weserkurier, October 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ Crowdfunding page on Startnext .
  6. ↑ Matthias Holthaus: Facility in Schnoor is threatened with closure. Künstlerhaus Ausspann before the end , in: WeserKurier, December 15, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 21.5 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 37.7"  E