St Petrus House

The house of St. Peter, also called Peter's house, in the Bremen Böttcherstrasse 3/ 5 was built 1923-1927 to the designs of Edward and Alfred Runge Scotland. It is one of the interesting contemporary German architecture of the interwar period and is since 1973 under monument protection.

History

At the Böttcherstrasse (formerly Bötticherstraße ) were around 1900 several two-storey eaves constant, small commercial houses that were demolished as part of the new development on the Böttcherstrasse from around 1921. Characteristic were several horizontal buttresses from wall to wall across the street.

Ludwig Roselius had the Senate and the build-official bodies of the city convinced the plan to give rise to artists and small artisans with studios, shops and apartments in the vicinity of the market place in accordance with the North German building tradition a small colony. Roselius acquired in 1924 from Bremen therefore state the ground lease for 60 years for the land Böttcherstrasse No. 15 to 19 ( old number designations ). After the conversion of the Roselius House and the packing houses Böttcherstrasse 4-5 could be continued from 1924 to 1927, the redevelopment of the cooper street on the west side.

The designs for the buildings between the street behind the Schütting and the space- like extension on the Roselius House provided the architects Runge and Scotland. First held up for the entire complex the designation as HAG - house, and later campaigned for the part south of the staircase gable being called a house of St. Peter by.

The 1924 built until 1927 House St. Peter was divided into several sections as a shop house with vorgelagertem archway in the extension of the hag house, then the clubhouse, where the Bremer Association of 1914 had their rooms and the catering area with a restaurant. It was once home to the Golden Hall as lecture hall and behind the Gothic gables the elaborate wine restaurant St. Peter.

In October 1944, incendiary bombs destroyed almost the entire Böttcherstrasse. Until 1954 was the almost faithful reconstruction. Even today, on the ground floor, the restaurant Permanent Representation in Flett. Also the Weinkontor St. Peter is located behind the Gothic gables in the building. From 1981 to 2010, there was also the Casino Bremen. Since August 2011, the Atlantic Grand Hotel operates the premises and has the Golden Hall and the adjoining party room the tent and the Scotland Hall modernized. Behind the facade gable is located since 2011, Gastro gallery art & delicious.

1979 sold Ludwig Roselius jun. the Kaffee HAG together Böttcherstrasse at General Foods in 1981 and the repurchase of the Böttcherstrasse. 1989 bought the Sparkasse Bremen to the house Atlantis, the entire road, including their buildings. In 2004, the Böttcherstrasse in the Bremer Foundation saver Thanks over. It is operated by the Böttcherstrasse GmbH, a subsidiary of the financial holding company of the Sparkasse in Bremen.

Name

Roselius was in this building settle a pure fish restaurant. Therefore the name of Peter's house or house of St. Peter was built for Peter, the patron saint of fishermen and fishmongers. Today's Fleet restaurant offers dishes in all areas.

Building

The two-story, brick building has eaves constantly highlight the low Land depth, with a moving first course. When designing found the stylistic devices of the North German Gothic Revival architecture as homeland security application with recording of the regional building tradition. By dormers, gables galleries and the architects managed a varied facade design. Like all buildings on Böttcherstrasse characterize the red brick facades. The arcade for pedestrians on the ground floor took into account the time for the edification still possible driving traffic.

Rudolf Alexander Schröder wrote that it was " to credit the architects Runge and Scotland to high praise that around them put their new physical structure in a dignified and artful restraint somewhat like a socket to the preserved gem of the old Roseliusschen commercial building. " He pointed to the gable, " gives a very special happy look point ... "

The Flett restaurant designed around 1926 Ernst Müller- Scheessel in the style of a Low German Bauerndiele with a huge wagon wheel chandelier as the ceiling.

On curving staircase was on a round, narrow column, the small sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians by Aloys Rohr.