Kontorhaus am Markt

The office building on the market in Bremen is a historic house in the middle of the district, the district of Old Town. Today's shopping arcade with offices on the upper floors is located at Bremen's market at the Lange Straße 2 /8, the stint bridge 1 and the Bredenstraße 13

History

In the 18th century

In the district surrounding stint bridge, church, Breden, Wilken and front Long road were in the 18th century still mixed small and medium sized, two - to three-storey residential and commercial buildings. Old warehouses and gabled houses still dominated the picture of the long road. The smaller gabled houses behind the Schütting had soft 1913 for the expansion of the Chamber of Commerce building. So the houses on the construction site for the future Disconto bank.

New in 1912

The new group of buildings was Langen-/Bredenstraße/Stintbrücke 1910-1912 by the Berlin architects Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser in the Neo-Renaissance style for the Disconto Society, a major commercial bank until 1929, with headquarters in Berlin and branches in Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, London and Hamburg, built. It is in close proximity to the traditional Schütting, the seat of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce. The large building is an example of how the Bremen City expanded in the market place. The endeavor of the Senate and its committee of experts was to be protected by the building regulations detailed historical townscape on and around the square. The architects got a design for a combination of a modern office building with locally oriented façade decoration. This includes the intricate, historicizing shell - stone structure. The building is one of the best and most original achievements in the Bremer Bank and office building houses its time.

The three-storey, massive building was turned to the marketplace a preserved double gable with an open, gothic arched portico. About the arbor on pillars standing ten ornament -like sculptures. Fied Also at the Long Street was subdivided two large, not preserved, separated from each other gables the longitudinal facade that is bricked in the two lower ground floors with bricks. The gable roof dormers got a few that have been completed following the modifications by modern, high dormers. The three-part, representative of the main portal Disconto Society at the Long Street was surrounded by superior pillars on which are allegorical figures.

Conversion to office building and shopping mall

A major reconstruction took place in 1966. Finally, the building of the Telekom was used as office and commercial building.

In the summer of 1999, the Bremer Investment Company ( BIG) has purchased the building. According to plans of architect Manfred Schomers and Rainer Schürmann sections to a fundamental renewal and expansion of the complex. The upper floors are used as office and service area since the end of 2001 and the headquarters of the state Bremen Economic Development ( WFB). She is in Bremen responsible for Regional Development and Economic Development. Together, the areas on the ground floor and basement developed the WFB and the company Big Justus, who owns the neighboring building, to 2002 to a covered shopping arcade with a catering business and light -flooded inner courtyard.

Conservation

Since 1994 the ensemble are the building Lange Straße 2-18 as monuments under Bremer Bremer listed in the list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte # 0830