Villa Rutenberg

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Villa Rutenberg

The Villa Rutenberg in Bremen - Ostliche Vorstadt , Am Dobben 91, was a residential building and has been the seat of the Central / Eastern Suburbs office since 1979 .

The building was placed under monument protection in 1981 as a Bremen cultural monument.

history

The builder Lüder Rutenberg (1816–1890) designed and built the villa in 1864 (according to other sources, 1861) as a representative residence for himself and his family. The two-storey, four-axle structure also has a basement and a mezzanine floor as well as a side, formative risalit . The ballroom with a gallery measured 5.2 mx 13.2 m with a height of 5.9 m. The Rutenberg workshops were located in the basement.

The villa remained in the family until 1920. It was bought by the city. Local office manager Robert Bücking reported: “It was supposed to be demolished and a house for the Mayor Smidt School built in its place.” Instead, however, it has since served as the headquarters of the health department, the trade supervisory office, the Bremen state archive and the federal office of the ADFC . Today the local office center / eastern suburb is located there.

In 1977, after the suspended ceilings had been removed , the ceiling and wall paintings commissioned by Rutenberg in 1862 and by Lambert Leisewitz around 1880 were discovered in the former ballroom / dining room and restored until 1979, as were those in the hallway and in a room in between. State monument curator Hans-Christoph Hoffmann described the appearance: “The house at Am Dobben 91 not only looks inconspicuous from the outside, it is almost ugly. At first glance, one would like to see a utilaristic official building in this house - for example the administration building of a prison - than the villa of a wealthy bourgeois building contractor and building speculator ... “The aging house was thoroughly renovated in the 1980s through renovation work. The Advisory Councils for Central and Eastern Suburbs do not meet in the building, as the hall is not accessible for disabled people.

Individual evidence

  1. Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ^ Liane Janz: Where Lüder Rutenberg lived . In: Weser-Kurier of July 7, 2013
  3. Bremisches Jahrbuch von 1980, p. 307f, fig. 14 to 18 on p. 298 to 300.

literature

  • Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Architecture of Bremen II. P. 160, 1965.
  • Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: The preservation of monuments in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1978 to 1979 . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Nr. 58, pp. 307–310, Fig. 15–18 Bremen 1980.
  • Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: The preservation of monuments in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1985 to 1988 , Fig. 9. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Nr. 67, pp. 195–196, Bremen 1989.
  • Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: The preservation of monuments in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1989 to 1991 In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , No. 71, pp. 262–264, Fig. 7–9b., Bremen 1992.
  • Gret Leisewitz: Builders and brewers - the house at Am Dobben 91 , In: Bremer houses tell history , Vol. 2, pp. 68–78, Bremen 2001.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 23 ″  E