Deutsche Bank building, Bremen
The Deutsche Bank building (German: Deutsche Bank am Domshof) on Domshof Square in the centre of Bremen, Germany, was completed in 1891 in a Historicist style by the architects Wilhelm Martens and Friedrich Wilhelm Rauschenberg.[1]
History and architecture
The imposing building located at No. 25 Domshof was designed by Wilhelm Martens (1842–1910) from Berlin and the Bremen architect Friedrich Wilhelm Rauschenberg (1853–1935). The building was for the
Martens, the house architect of Deutsche Bank, Berlin, was considered a specialist in bank design. He also drew up plans for the Sparkasse building on Bremen's
In connection with the construction of the Domshof Passage from 1996 to 1999, the bank building was modernized by the Bremen architects Harm Haslob, Peter Hartlich and Jens Kruse. The passage is a shopping arcade with sixteen shops which allows visitors to travel to the Katherinenpassage which was built less than ten years before.[4]
The building faces the Domshof, the market square, in Bremen and just in front of the bank is a sculpture based on a model of the world. Titled Unser Planet (Our Planet), it was made by the German sculptor Bernd Altenstein.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Database Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen". (in German)
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ Thomas Kuzaj (4 April 2013). "Repräsentativer roter Stein" (in German). kreiszeitung.de. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ "German Bank at Domshof". Bremen-tourism.de. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ "Denkmäler, Kunstwerke und Skulpturen: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Bremen - Mitte: Altstadt, Ostertor" (in German). Bremen-freizeit.de. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
