Essighaus

The vinegar House ( also Esich House) in Lange Straße in Bremen was a splendid gabled house in the Weser Renaissance style. It was destroyed in the Second World War up to the ground floor and reconstructed in the 50s partly. Since 1973, the building is a listed building.

The vinegar house was commissioned by the Kaufmann family Esich (see: Johann Esich (mayor) ) 1618 built as a narrow but magnificent patrician house in the immediate neighborhood of the city scale by an unknown builder. Originally owned the house five floors, a magnificent facade with sculptures of Obernkirchener sandstone and decorated with scrollwork pediment. On the facade of the following sentence could read: "Has Neit Abgunst is even umsunst - Got what remains unverweret graciously. "

After the building was for many years a merchant in hand, operated a certain Conrad Buchner here in 1828 a brewery. His successor, Heinrich Rasch, established a vinegar factory, which is why the house has been known since the 19th century as " vinegar house". Under the changing commercial use of the building degenerated rapidly and should be demolished. 1893 London's South Kensington Museum applied to the purchase, at least to preserve the facade and build again in England. The architect Albert darkness tried to restore it with a means Bremer Foundation and was briefly owner of the building itself, but the money was not enough to complete the work. 1897 jumped in the Bremen Reidemeister & Ulrichs wine trading house and earned the vinegar house for 125,000 marks. Dark finished until 1901 the reconstruction of the building, on its premises the wine bar Alt -Bremer- house opened, is famous nationally particularly for its sophisticated interior. 1901 in this restaurant, the East Asian Association of Bremen was founded.

The house with the exception of the ground floor was completely destroyed by bombing on September 5, 1942 and October 6, 1944. During reconstruction in 1956 were only the Utluchten ( the ground floor bay window ) and the portal reconstructed, the upper floors have been completely redesigned and provided the gable with bits and pieces of the former Caesar 's house from Domshof.

Since 1972, the building is used by a financial institution. First, here resided the private bank Martens & Weyhausen. Today it is the headquarters of Deutsche Factoring Bank.