Spitzen Gebel

Tips Gebel is a historic house in Bremen Mitte district, the district of Old Town. The former piano carrier house is now a restaurant and is located in close proximity to Bremen's Market Square, Behind the Schütting No. 1, an alley that leads to Wachtstraße.

Architectural History

The house was built around 1400. It is the last reconstructed medieval town house of the Hanseatic city. The pointed late Gothic gable became the namesake of the house and therein restaurant today. Previously, the house served as a wine house, slaughterhouse, beer hall and office building.

The Utlucht was from 1590; they had top three and bottom two rectangular windows. The portal was from around 1610 Prosch describes to the building. " The earliest form [ ... ] is the Gothic brick gabled house as it came up in the middle of the 16th century in fairly constant facade scheme again and again for use".

The destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War, rotsteinsichtige, two-storey building with a gabled roof was built on behalf of a brewery from 1948 / 49-1950 by the architect Bernhard Wessel again. In this case, some changes have been made: The Utlucht received above and below four encased in sandstone window. From the four gothic gable window smaller rectangular windows were now. Their earlier plastered infill in the ogival outline was now in Rotstein. The gable height was somewhat smaller.

Sluk ut de Lamp

The heirs of the beer sold dealer Adolf Ulbrich 1913, the beer hall of Ad. Ullrich Ww to the United Piano carrier as an office building. From this period extends a custom, from the became a specialty of the restaurant today tops Gebel: The Sluk ut de Lamp, Low German sip from the lamp or briefly off the lamp. The piano carriers were allowed to drink alcohol while working. So they used in the waiting times to the then customary lantern into a bottle and filled into schnapps. They were now ready a swig and no one noticed the consumption of alcohol.

Monument, monuments

Since 1973, the building stands as a monument Bremer historical monument. (See: List of cultural monuments in Bremen -Mitte).

On the small open space in front of the tips of Gebel is the small bronze monument Fietje bladders by Bernd Old stone in memory of the bellows, a former tributary of the Weser, which led past the house.