Villa Frerichs
The Villa Frerichs is located in Bremen - Mitte , Osterdeich No. 25/27 on the Punkendeich .
The building was placed under monument protection in 1973 as a Bremen cultural monument.
history
Initially there were smaller houses with apartments and an inn, which became Heinrich Bach's coffee house in early 1870. After the demolition of these houses, the upper-class cotton merchant Adolf Frerichs had the representative, two-and-a-half-story Villa Frerichs built from 1882 to 1884 according to plans by Johann Georg Poppe in the era of historicism and in the style of the neo-renaissance popular in Bremen . The six-axis house has a heavily decorated front with two side risalits and a small central gable. Inside there is a central flight of stairs and a hall of mirrors. The pillars, ceilings and walls are decorated with stucco as well as five frescoes by Arthur Fitger .
After the death of Frerichs, shortly after completion, his widow lived in the villa for decades and rented some rooms after the First World War. From 1922 the merchant Walter Haux lived here for a short time. In the 1930s only a few rooms were rented. In 1940 parts of the staff and in 1941 the command staff of the 8th Flak Division were housed here, which in 1942 was based in a bunker on Parkallee .
After the Second World War, the Senator for Education occupied rooms until 1955, then the Institute for Shipping Research and then the Office for Family Welfare. From 1970 to 1986, the post office's apprentice home and at times the municipal child benefit fund used the rooms of the villa. From 1986 to 1992, Caritas housed migrants and asylum seekers here. In 1992, the Scientologists' training center was based here for a few months . The doctor and business economist Jens Koberstein bought the building for 2.6 million marks and began setting up a medical center with 15 specialist practices. After the investor's financial difficulties, the house fell back to its previous owner Werner Schalm. The house was renovated in 2004/05. A new anchor tenant has been using the house for a company and eight apartments since 2011.
literature
- Chamber of Architects Bremen, BDA Bremen and Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , Example 40. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-922516-56-4 .
- Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992, p. 45.
- Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: The preservation of monuments in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1971 to 1977 . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 56, Bremen 1978.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 10.8 ″ N , 8 ° 49 ′ 12.9 ″ E