Shoe shops (Bremen)

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Schuhbuden-Haus on the southern edge of the Liebfrauenkirchhof, from the city map by Frans Hogenberg (1589)
The Schuhbuden-Haus 1603 right in front of the beginning of Obernstrasse, representation of the market on panel XVII of the Dilich Chronicle (1603)
Schuhbuden-Haus on the southern edge of the Liebfrauenkirchhof, on panel XIII of the Dilich Chronicle (1603 ff.)

The shoe stalls , Low German De Scho floor , were the 15th and 16th century buildings on the south side of the cemetery of Our Lady in Bremen.

In the 14th century, the shoemaker's workshops were actually still located here in a long row of stalls, some of which were counted from the Domus theatralis , the old town hall on Obernstrasse and the corner of Sögestrasse, and others from the Pr (a) etorium , which means either the bishop's palace at the Domshof can be meant, or a half-open court in the west of today's town hall, or the building on the market that Dilich drew in his reconstruction for the 13th century .

But already in a repair order from the mayor and the councilors to the bricklayer Everd from 1426, de schoboden are mentioned as one of four houses, next to the new and old town hall and the bone house. While normal guild houses owned by the guild were, the house belonged to the shoe stalls of the city, and the shoemaker were tenants of their workshops. The two-story building with a cellar was probably a good 25 meters long and had a gable roof with stepped gables . It is uncertain whether the hostel for journeymen mentioned in the history of the Bremen shoemaker's guild was also located there. A patrician's private house was built at the east end. The ridge of the roof was perpendicular to that of the building, also known as the “Schuhhof”, and also ended in stepped gables.

While the guilds had been an important force in the urban community since the 13th century, their influence in Bremen declined as early as the 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th century, against the resistance of the guild, the Senate first approved a free master who was allowed to manufacture shoes without belonging to the guild. The free masters introduced new techniques and shoe models and often employed a large number of workers.

The demolition of the shoe booth building in 1614 to make way for the new stock exchange also falls within this framework. First a wine cellar was created. The construction of the actual stock exchange building was delayed by the warlike times ( Thirty Years War , as well as the First and Second Bremen-Swedish War ) until 1682.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.7 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 24.5"  E