Wikingborg, Parchmann House
The Parchmann house , called Wikingborg , is located in Bremen , Borgfeld district , Katrepeler Landstrasse 51. The villa was built in 1962 according to plans by Eberhard Gildemeister . It has been a listed building in Bremen since 1981 .
history
The single-storey villa clad with white stones was built in 1961/62 in a conservative style for the shipowner Helmut Parchmann: It is a late work by the architect Gildemeister. It consists of a tent-roof-like wing to which a curved section of the building is connected. The soaring roof, the ridge of which slopes down slightly from the residential wing, was only broken through by a few dormers . The passage through this elaborate roof is covered between the residential wing and the former horse stable with six boxes and the caretaker's apartment. The round roof tiles emphasize the plasticity of the roof. A horse sculpture by the sculptor Herbert Kubica stands in front of the curved entrance area covered by an arcade . The top of the roof was adorned with a gilded Viking ship. The interior design was also very elaborately designed in the style of the house.
The client Parchmann (* 1917) was a Bremen shipowner and ship broker. He founded the shipping company in 1956; in 1962 she owned nine ships. Already during the construction of the property, which probably cost two million marks, the shipping company got into a crisis and a widely recognized insolvency procedure had to be carried out.
The house is now divided into condominiums.
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ Claus Barthoidt: With course for bankruptcy . In: The time of July 3rd. 1962,
- ↑ Der Spiegel of June 6, 1962: Under the hipped roof .
Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 23.2 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 51.6" E