Rathscafé / German House
The Rath Café , now Deutsches Haus is in Bremen , a listed building on Bremen's market square , Am Markt Nos. 1 and Hook Road # 1. It is part of the monument ensembles 1 Am Markt No. To 21 .
history
In the Middle Ages, there was a municipal wine house on the corner of Bremen's market square / Liebfrauenkirchhof and Obernstrasse , which later received a Renaissance gable. The building was still used as a wine warehouse in the 17th century. It then went into private ownership and was rebuilt several times. Around 1900 there was a lingerie shop here. It was then bought by the city of Bremen and demolished for a new building.
Rathscafé
Due to its close proximity to the Bremen Town Hall , the building project was therefore put out to tender in a nationwide competition. The winner of the architectural competition was the young Bremen architect Rudolf Jacobs . According to his plans, the four-storey building with gable roofs took place from 1909 to 1911 on the corner of Markt / Liebfrauenkirchhof (at that time Kaiser Wilhelm-Platz ). Jacobs succeeded in building a building that received a lot of attention from experts. It is of great urban significance for the market square and for the Unser-Lieben-Frauen-Kirchhof opposite .
The building from the building epoch at the turn of the century corresponded in terms of its scale and design to the Heimatschutz architecture and the reform architecture . The gable-independent three-house group, as a "document of old Bremen art and culture", is furnished inside and out with original pieces from salvage, collections and purchases such as the external stone gable decorations, the 18th century Utluchten and the portals as well as the two floorboards from the 18th century inside.
German house
The corner house, which was badly damaged in the Second World War , was rebuilt in 1950/51 by the Paul Kossel company based on plans by architect Herbert Anker, almost true to the findings. After the reconstruction, the former Rathscafé is called Deutsches Haus . Sandstone reliefs address destruction and reconstruction. The interior underwent major changes in 1956. Only in the corner house on Hakenstrasse is a replica of a hallway from Stövesandt's house on Geeren using original stairs, doors and parapet panels with acanthus carvings from around 1740.
The former market floorboards were now called Bürgerstuben and some of the rooms were still called Rathsstuben . The Deutsche Bruderhilfe was located in the building . In 1995 the building complex with the associated building Haus am Markt was completely revitalized by the Bremen architect Christian Bockholt (BPG office). The no longer up-to-date catering areas on the upper floors were u. a. converted into office space and apartments. The premises of the Industrie-Club Bremen eV were renewed and completely modernized in 2008. The building has been owned by the Körber Foundation since 2007 . Beck's is currently on the market in the restaurant .
The inscription in large letters has been on the side of the market since 1955 with the warning words of Wilhelm Kaisen :
- "Remember the brothers who bear the fate of our separation."
The inscription was awarded to the House of History in Bonn for one year from March 2011 for an exhibition .
The coat of arms stone on the gable is a replica of an old original of the great Bremen coat of arms on the Rickmerschen estate in Horn .
Components of other buildings
The following remains of other demolished town houses in Bremen were reinstalled in the Rathscafé: A late renaissance portal from around 1660 was used at Hakenstrasse 1 in 1909; on the market side the illuminations of the houses Tiefer No. 35 (right) and Hinterm Schütting No. 8 (left); the bay window of the corner house from Pelzerstrasse no. 6 and from Brill no. 8; the bay windows of the middle house at Balgebrückstrasse No. 33; the gable of the corner house on Hakenstrasse from Wachtstrasse 17, which was demolished in 1894.
Monument protection
In 1973 the Rathscafé, today the Deutsches Haus, was placed under a preservation order.
The building ensemble on the northwest side of the market square consists of the following four buildings from right to left:
- No. 1 Rathscafé / Deutsches Haus from 1908–1911 and 1951/1956,
- No. 9 Haus Zum Jonas from 1600 and 1963,
- No. 11 Raths-Apotheke from 1893–1894 and 1959–1960,
- No. 12 House of the Stadtsparkasse from 1755 and 1957–1958.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- SD Gallwitz: A new creation in Bremen's historical cityscape . In: Deutsche Bauhütte 14 from 1910.
- Volker Plagemann and Eberhard Syring: Rathscafé and Deutsches Haus , ( Bremen Center for Building Culture , Series of publications, vol. 10), Bremen 2009 (166 pages, 140 illus.)
- Ratscafé in Bremen, market square . In: Der Baumeister 9 from 1911.
- Georg Dehio (Ed.): Bremen / Lower Saxony , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmshäuser , Hoffmann, Manske: The town hall and the Roland from the market square in Bremen , p. 135: Plan of the Ratscafé with entries of components, view of the market . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-86108-682-4 .
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.1 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 24.8 ″ E