Customs office Bremen-Überseehafen

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Customs office Bremen-Überseehafen

The Bremen-Überseehafen customs office is located in Bremen , Walle district, Überseestadt district , Hansator 1 / Nordstrasse. The buildings were built until 1964 according to plans by senior building officer Willi Bornemann (building department of the Bremen regional tax office). The buildings have been under the protection of historical monuments in Bremen since 2004 .

history

From 1888 to 2000 there was the free port in Bremen as a duty-free area in the area of ​​the Europahafen (filled in from 1887, 1998) and overseas port (from 1906, closed as a free port in 1991). Here, in a fenced area, the shipments, mostly general cargo , were unloaded , stored and also processed. Customs control took place at various customs passages . 16 customs officers worked in the old Überseehafen customs office until 2006 and then in the new Überseestadt customs office at the Hafenhochhaus, Hafenstrasse 55.

The three-storey administrative building with strappy facade in beige and ocher, trapezoidal floor plan, flying roof and wedge-shaped staircase with time typical oval stairwell was built in 1961-1964 in modern style of the postwar period for the customs office seaport.
Of the two single-storey terminal buildings, the ellipsoidal building for small goods traffic remained; the one for passenger traffic was demolished in 2003. The oval roof also spans the open area of ​​the ramp of the building on a traffic island.
The iron customs fence on a longer section was preserved.

The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen found: “The architectural design of the overseas port customs office has been closely adapted to the original purpose of customs clearance. But they are ... at the same time individual buildings with sophisticated architecture from the 1960s. "

The five-meter-high concrete Hansator by the artist and architect Karl-August Welp has stood next to the main entrance since 1964 . The sculpture is reminiscent of a sail and an archway.

Today (2018) the administration building u. a. used by the Musikszene Bremen association and the tobacco exchange. Workshops, concerts, parties and club meetings take place in the room with the arena stage, known as the customs canteen . 2018 the Überseefestival in Bremen. The terminal building has been empty since 2008.

literature

  • Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings 1950–1979 . Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 , pp. 367 .
  • Rolf Höhmann: Buildings worth preserving in the ports of Bremen city . In: Preservation of monuments in Bremen, volume 2, Bremen 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD: complete system
  2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD: Administration building
  3. ^ Monument database of the LfD: Small goods clearance
  4. ↑ Pascal Faltermann: Line-up for the Überseefestival in Bremen is ready . In: Weser-Kurier from June 13, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '20.3 ​​"  N , 8 ° 47' 1.2"  E