Villa Bischoff (Bremen)
The Villa Bischoff is located in Bremen , Vegesack district, Vegesack district, Weserstraße 84, on the high banks of the Weser . It was created in 1887 according to plans by Ludwig Klingenberg and Hugo Weber . The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1984 .
history
The two-storey, five-axis, clinker-brick villa with a mansard roof , the strongly formed cornices , the three-storey, garden-side, octagonal turret with a lantern in the bell dome , the distinctive entrance portal adorned with coat of arms and above it the striking bay window, the glazed porch and the basement was built in the period of historicism in 1886/87 in the neo-renaissance style for shipowner Johann Diedrich Bischoff (1823-1893). He was the father of shipowner Friedrich Bischoff , who had lived in the villa as a wedding present since his marriage to the merchant's daughter Marie Danziger (1864–1942). Inside, the Argo room on the ground floor with carvings by the Vegesack sculptor Nikolaus Bunkenborg and the large salon with high-quality wood paneling and the curved staircase are remarkable.
The Villa Schröder (Weserstraße 79) was designed by the same architects at the same time as the Villa Danziger (Weserstraße 80/81) of the father and father-in-law of Marie Danziger and Friedrich Bischoff , which has now been replaced by a new building .
In 1910 Friedrich Bischoff sold the house to Elisabeth Lange nee. Stümcke (1854–1952), she was the widow of the merchant Johann Lange (1844–1896), a grandson of the shipbuilder Johann Lange . Their daughter Gesine Lange (1880–1973) was with the senior teacher Dr. phil. Heinrich Leo (1876–1915) married, whose descendants lived in the house in the following years.
In his novel Flood and Floor , the historian Per Leo describes the house, he is a great-grandson of Heinrich Leo. The focus of the novel is on Leo's grandfather Friedrich and his eldest brother Martin, who spent their childhood and adolescence in the Villa Bischoff as "very unequal brothers." In Chapter 5, which is devoted to Martin growing up in the educated middle class household of the Lange-Leo family, the villa itself becomes a main character: »Houses are things. You have them. Those who earn money with houses like to call them “objects”. Houses are designed, financed and built, inhabited, maintained and lent, neglected, inherited and sold. Usually people rule over houses. But sometimes it's the other way around. It happens that a house takes hold of a person, even if the language only reluctantly bends to it. In the case of little Martin, however, you have to say it like this: Barely six years old, a house with a tower high above the water has entered his life. A powerful vertical that will instruct him to raise or lower his head until his natural place has become the middle between below and above. This axis will run through him like a second spinal column, straighten him up and hold him by spanning his body between earth and sky. "
In 2014, the later owners of the house with 714 m² of usable space decided to sell it.
The building was sold in spring 2020 and is still used for offices and living.
literature
- Rolf Engelsing: Bischoff, Heinrich Friedrich. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969.
- Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: Research, care, protect, preserve, Bremen 1998.
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ Anja Kümmel: The house of dark secrets . In: Weser-Kurier of March 30, 2014.
- ↑ Per Leo: Flood and soil. A family novel . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, p. 90 .
- ↑ Jürgen Theiner: Weserstraße: Villa Bischoff is available . In: Weser-Kurier of August 29, 2014.
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 14 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 12.5" E