Marterburg

The Marterburg is a street in Bremen Schnoor quarter. The name is derived from Matt Castle, the drop-off and storage area for the mat, grain and flour output. The street runs from the south-west Ostertorstraße and describes an arc until it merges into the background wooden gate. West branch Kolpingstraße, from rear of the bellows, Schnoor and Spieker beard road. The road marks the frontal side of a row of houses, the rear of which clung to the walls located east. The foundations of six towers in the houses Altenwall 9 / Marterburg 50 ( under monument protection) and Marterburg 45 are remnants of the city wall.

South of the Kolpingstraße consists mainly old or restored buildings. There are on the northwest side of the road nine buildings under monument protection.

New development

North on both sides of the Marterburg the Kolpingstraße with connection to the parallel Komturstraße and both sides of the Kolpingstraße between the two roads were built in the 1980s and 1990s, residential and commercial buildings according to the designs of architect Thomas Klumpp and tungsten Goldapp. Also the Museum of Antiquities in Schnoor is located here.

The houses are similar in structure: the ground floor shops, offices and some apartments, apartments on the upper floors with access via exterior stairs, balconies, roof gardens. Due to the exterior design of a group of very individual buildings arose. The post-modern design with multi-colored facades and playful details is controversial.

Saga

After a quoted by Friedrich Wagenfeld Sage Marterburg the name comes from an incident beginning of the tenth century: An attacking horde had invaded the city and was pushed in the hasty retreat into the narrow street. There they were poured from the windows of the houses with boiling oil and water, " so that they had a miserable, agonizing death. "