Ronning House
The Ronning-Haus in Bremen - Mitte in the old town, Sögestraße 54, is a commercial building.
The building was placed under monument protection in 1973 as a Bremen cultural monument.
history
Sögestraße is a main shopping street in Bremen. It was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War , as was the shop of the merchant and coffee roaster Carl Ronning from Bremen . From 1947 until the early 1950s, the reconstruction took place in Sögestraße.
The narrow, gable-free , four-storey and four-axle Ronning house made of brick with a two-storey bay window was built from 1949 to 1950 according to the plans of the architect Heinz Logemann. The striking, ornamental gable sparked a heated discussion in Bremen in 1950 about how the old town should be built. In the narrower Sögestraße, uniformly eaves-facing houses were required. Builder Carl Ronning and Logemann built the gable house, hidden behind building plans and contrary to the building permit. The public discussion led to a survey of the population, 98% of whom were in favor of the gable. Senator Emil Theil (SPD) subsequently approved this form of the building. The outcome of the gable dispute was a first, important example of active democracy in Bremen and changed the approval practice of the Bremen building authorities, which had been uncontested until this point in time, and which was strongly restrictive in terms of design.
swell
- Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951 , 1952, p. 351, Fig. XI.
- Carl-Ludwig Sommer (Ed.): Bremen in the fifties. Politics, economy, culture . In the series: Bremen in the 20th century, Bremen 1989.
- Thomas Kuza: Ronning-Haus causes gable dispute. Architect violates specifications - building designed in an old tradition . In: Nordwest-Zeitung - NWZ from April 28, 2014.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 28.7 ″ E